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CVE-2002-1276

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-11-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

An incomplete fix for a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SquirrelMail 1.2.8 calls the strip_tags function on the PHP_SELF value but does not save the result back to that variable, leaving it open to cross-site scripting attacks.

Affected products

• SquirrelMail: 1.2.8

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=167471
• http://secunia.com/advisories/8220
• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-191
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10634.php
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-042.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7019
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=167471
• http://secunia.com/advisories/8220
• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-191
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10634.php
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-042.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7019

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