CVE-2002-1853

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MyNewsGroups 0.4 and 0.4.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the subject of a newsgroup post, which is not properly handled by (1) myarticles.php, (2) search.php, (3) stats.php, or (4) standard.lib.php.

Affected products

Carlos Sanchez Valle Mynewsgroups: 0.4, 0.4.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/7177
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10238.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/293564
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5836
http://secunia.com/advisories/7177
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10238.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/293564
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5836

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