CVE-2002-0998: Care 2002

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in cafenews.php for CARE 2002 before beta 1.0.02 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences and null characters in the lang parameter, which is processed by a call to the include function.

Affected products

• Care 2002 Care 2002: version 1.0 only; version 1.0.01 only

Published 2002-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.