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CVSSv2

CVE-2002-1688

Published: 31/12/2002 Updated: 23/07/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

The browser history feature in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 up to and including 6.0 allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary script as other users and steal authentication information via cookies by injecting JavaScript into the URL, which is executed when the user hits the Back button.

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microsoft internet explorer 5.5

microsoft internet explorer 6.0

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/4505/info A vulnerability has been reported in some versions of Internet Explorer It is possible to inject JavaScript code into the browser history list, and execute it within any page context given appropriate user interaction Internet Explorer stores javascript: URLs in the browser history list Script ...