CVE-2002-0118

Exp

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Infopop Ultimate Bulletin Board (UBB) 6.2.0 Beta Release 1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary script and steal cookies via a message containing encoded Javascript in an IMG tag.

Published: 2002-03-25 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2002-0118 is rated High Exploit Risk (81.7/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 7.10%, 93th percentile). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +4.04% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2002-0118

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
21209 exploit_db edb 2002-01-09 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2002-0118

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 3.06% 7.10% +4.04%
2 2025-03-30 5.34% 3.06% -2.28%
3 2025-03-29 5.34%

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2002-0118

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2002-0118

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2002-0118

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
infopop ultimate_bulletin_board 5.4.7e cpe:2.3:a:infopop:ultimate_bulletin_board:5.4.7e:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
infopop ultimate_bulletin_board 5.43 cpe:2.3:a:infopop:ultimate_bulletin_board:5.43:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
infopop ultimate_bulletin_board 6.0 cpe:2.3:a:infopop:ultimate_bulletin_board:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
infopop ultimate_bulletin_board 6.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:infopop:ultimate_bulletin_board:6.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
infopop ultimate_bulletin_board 6.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:infopop:ultimate_bulletin_board:6.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
infopop ultimate_bulletin_board 6.0.3 cpe:2.3:a:infopop:ultimate_bulletin_board:6.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
infopop ultimate_bulletin_board 6.0.4f cpe:2.3:a:infopop:ultimate_bulletin_board:6.0.4f:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
infopop ultimate_bulletin_board 6.0beta cpe:2.3:a:infopop:ultimate_bulletin_board:6.0beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
infopop ultimate_bulletin_board 6.2.0_beta_release_1.0 cpe:2.3:a:infopop:ultimate_bulletin_board:6.2.0_beta_release_1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2002-0118

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