CVE-2002-0861: Microsoft Office Web Components

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 15.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Office Web Components (OWC) 2000 and 2002 allows remote attackers to bypass the "Allow paste operations via script" setting, even when it is disabled, via the (1) Copy method of the Cell object or (2) the Paste method of the Range object.

Affected products

• Microsoft Office Web Components: version 2000 only; version 2002 only
• Microsoft Project: version 2000 only; version 2002 only

Published 2002-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.