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CVE-2002-1996

15
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0126 is in the 49th percentile among its peer group of 1,505 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 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/2002-03/0288.html
ExploitPatch
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-03/0299.html
sourceforge.net / tracker/index.php
iss.net / security_center/static/8605.php
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/4350
Patch