CVE-2002-2435

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-12-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 and earlier does not properly handle the :visited pseudo-class, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages via a crafted HTML document, a related issue to CVE-2010-2264.

Affected products

Microsoft Ie: 7.0.6000.16711, 8.0.7600.16385, 8.0b
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: through 8; 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0 (+91)

References

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777
http://w2spconf.com/2010/papers/p26.pdf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71817
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777
http://w2spconf.com/2010/papers/p26.pdf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71817

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