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CVE-2002-1493

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1493 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Lycos HTMLGear guestbook product. Remote attackers can inject arbitrary script into web pages by manipulating STYLE or SRC attributes within IMG tags. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and no authentication required, with a potential impact of partial integrity compromise. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-21802) exists, and the CVE has minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lycos:htmlgear_guestgear:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21802 · Sep 17, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0174 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0198.html
ExploitVendor Advisory
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/vulnwatch/2002-q3/0132.html
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/12235
securityfocus.com / bid/5728
ExploitVendor Advisory