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CVE-2002-0230

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0230 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Faq-O-Matic versions 2.712 and earlier. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript into error messages via the 'cmd' parameter, affecting other clients browsing the vulnerable application. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), it is a medium-severity vulnerability, indicating low attack complexity and potential for information disclosure or session hijacking. While not on the KEV catalog or Hot List, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.712CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:faq-o-matic:faq-o-matic:2.712:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21263 · Feb 4, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0770 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

marc.info
marc.info
sourceforge.net / mailarchive/forum.php
debian.org / security/2002/dsa-109
PatchVendor Advisory