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medium 4.3

CVE-2002-1954 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the phpinfo function in PHP 4.2.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTM…

published 23y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2002-1933

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.9%
EPSS 11.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the phpinfo function in PHP 4.2.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string argument, as demonstrated using soinfo.php.

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-22725)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

11.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-14).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-22725 PHP 4 - 'PHPInfo()' Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2002-10-12
  • archives.neohapsis.com http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-06/0027.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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Sources

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