CVE-2002-1651 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Verity Search97 allows remote attackers to insert arbitrary web content and steal sensitive information from other clients, possibly due to certain error messages from template pages that use the (1) vformat or (2) vfilter functions

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Verity Search97 allows remote attackers to insert arbitrary web content and steal sensitive information from other clients, possibly due to certain error messages from template pages that use the (1) vformat or (2) vfilter functions

Published Mar 28, 2005

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.34%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Verity Search97 allows remote attackers to insert arbitrary web content and steal sensitive information from other clients, possibly due to certain error messages from template pages that use the (1) vformat or (2) vfilter functions.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.34% 0.01337

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01337

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.34% (0.01337)	70.20th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.34% (0.01337)	67.45th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Dec 27, 2025	1.93% (0.01926)	82.97th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	0.81% (0.00806)	72.48th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.29% (0.00291)	69.90th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.29% (0.00294)	68.36th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.29% (0.00294)	64.33th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (3)

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/636431
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNPatchUS Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5102
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9441
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/636431		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNPatchUS Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5102		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9441		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 28, 2005

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Mar 29, 2005

Link CVE-2002-1651

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2002-1651

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2002-1651