CVE-2002-1799
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpRank 1.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) email parameter to add.php or (2) banurl parameter.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 3.6%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpRank 1.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) email parameter to add.php or (2) banurl parameter.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 3.61% probability · 89th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 10 October 2002
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- phprank/phprank
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 3.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0148.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10336.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5945Exploit
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0148.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10336.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5945Exploit
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.