CVE-2002-1996 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in PostNuke 0.71 and earlier, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through the 'name' parameter in modules.php and the 'catid' parameter in index.php. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network-based attack with high access complexity, resulting in partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploits in Metasploit or ExploitDB, though it has garnered significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:postnuke_software_foundation:postnuke:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.62CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:postnuke_software_foundation:postnuke:0.62:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.63CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:postnuke_software_foundation:postnuke:0.63:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.64CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:postnuke_software_foundation:postnuke:0.64:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.70CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:postnuke_software_foundation:postnuke:0.70:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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