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CVE-2002-1181

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 39.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-11-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the administrative web pages for Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 through 5.1 allow remote attackers to execute HTML script as other users through (1) a certain ASP file in the IISHELP virtual directory, or (2) possibly other unknown attack vectors.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Information Server: 4.0
• Microsoft IIS: 5.0

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103651224215736&w=2
• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-011.shtml
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10501.php
• http://www.lac.co.jp/security/intelligence/SNSAdvisory/58.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6068
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6072
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-062
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A942
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A944
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103651224215736&w=2
• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-011.shtml
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10501.php

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