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CVE-2003-0038
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in options.py for Mailman 2.1 allows remote attackers to inject script or HTML into web pages via…
Medium4.3EPSS 4.8%
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Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in options.py for Mailman 2.1 allows remote attackers to inject script or HTML into web pages via the (1) email or (2) language parameters.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.8% · top 8.1% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPImailmanGHSA-82rm-28q9-435p (opens in a new tab)
References (7)
- 20030124 Mailman: cross-site scripting bug (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 9205 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 6677 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1005987 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailman/xss-2.1.0-patch.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- mailman-email-variable-xss(11152) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- DSA-436 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-82rm-28q9-435p (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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