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CVE-2002-2420

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-2420 describes a critical remote command execution vulnerability in Super Site Searcher and Simple Site Searcher, where an attacker can inject shell metacharacters into the 'page' parameter of site_searcher.cgi. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with over 10 mentions, suggesting awareness and potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:independent_solution:simple_site_searcher:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:independent_solution:super_site_searcher:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21768 · Sep 3, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0609 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

securitytracker.com / id
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/5605