CVE-2002-0618: Microsoft Excel

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 14.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Macro Security Model in Microsoft Excel 2000 and 2002 for Windows allows remote attackers to execute code in the Local Computer zone by embedding HTML scripts within an Excel workbook that contains an XSL stylesheet, aka "Excel XSL Stylesheet Script Execution".

Affected products

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

Published 2002-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.