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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2002-1954 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the phpinfo function in PHP 4.2.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTM…

published 2002-12-31 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-1933

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.9%
EPSS 11.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the phpinfo function in PHP 4.2.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string argument, as demonstrated using soinfo.php.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-22725)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

11.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-22725 PHP 4 - 'PHPInfo()' Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2002-10-12
  • archives.neohapsis.com http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-06/0027.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

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Sources

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