CVE-2002-0615: Microsoft Excel

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Windows Media Active Playlist in Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1 stores information in a well known location on the local file system, allowing attackers to execute HTML scripts in the Local Computer zone, aka "Media Playback Script Invocation".

Affected products

• Microsoft Excel: version 2000 only; version 2002 only
• Microsoft Office: version 2000 only; version xp only

Published 2002-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.