CVE-2002-1853 — 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

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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

Published Jun 28, 2005

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.18%

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

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.18% 0.01177

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

EPSS probability 0.01177

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	1.18% (0.01177)	66.50th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.18% (0.01177)	63.43th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.35% (0.00346)	54.98th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.25% (0.00247)	65.27th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 15, 2024	0.15% (0.00155)	50.73th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.14% (0.00140)	48.37th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.24% (0.00242)	60.36th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 17, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	64.21th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	40.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

http://secunia.com/advisories/7177
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10238.php
vdb-entryx_refsource_XFPatch
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/293564
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5836
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/7177		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10238.php		vdb-entryx_refsource_XFPatch
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/293564		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5836		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jun 28, 2005

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Jun 28, 2005

Link CVE-2002-1853

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2002-1853

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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