CVE-2002-1996

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in PostNuke 0.71 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) name parameter in modules.php and (2) catid parameter in index.php.

Affected products

Postnuke Software Foundation Postnuke: 0.7, 0.62, 0.63, 0.64, 0.70, 0.71 (+1)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-03/0288.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-03/0299.html
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=524777&group_id=27927&atid=392228
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8605.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4350
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-03/0288.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-03/0299.html
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=524777&group_id=27927&atid=392228
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8605.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4350

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