XSS in Authoria

CVE-2002-2348

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in athcgi.exe in Authoria HR allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the command parameter.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2002-12-31 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (72.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 72nd percentile — 72.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Authoria — versions authoria_hr_suite

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/294624 (mailing-list)
www.iss.net/security_center/static/10324.php (vdb-entry)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/5932 (Exploit, vdb-entry)