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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2003-0009 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Help and Support Center for Microsoft Windows Me allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary s…

published 2003-03-07 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-0009

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
16.5%
EPSS 16.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Help and Support Center for Microsoft Windows Me allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary script in the Local Computer security context via an hcp:// URL with the malicious script in the topic parameter.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-22289)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

16.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-22289 Microsoft Windows XP/ME - Help and Support Center Buffer Overflow remote, 2003-02-26

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.