CVE-2002-1143: Microsoft Excel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 53.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Word and Excel allow remote attackers to steal sensitive information via certain field codes that insert the information when the document is returned to the attacker, as demonstrated in Word using (1) INCLUDETEXT or (2) INCLUDEPICTURE, aka "Flaw in Word Fields and Excel External Updates Could Lead to Information Disclosure."

Affected products

• Microsoft Excel: version 2002 only
• Microsoft Word: any version; version 97 only; version 98 only; version 2000 only; version 2001 only; version 2002 only

Published 2003-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.