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CVE-2002-1954

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-1954 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability within the phpinfo function of PHP version 4.2.3. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML into a user's browser through a crafted query string. While the CVSS score of 4.3 indicates a medium severity, successful exploitation could lead to information disclosure or session hijacking. Although no active exploitation is noted, public exploit code exists via ExploitDB, yet it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-22725 · Oct 12, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0362 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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/2003-06/0027.html
Exploit
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/vulnwatch/2002-q4/0021.html
iss.net / security_center/static/10355.php
techie.hopto.org / vulns/2002-36.txt