CVE-2002-1181: Microsoft Internet Information Server

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 39.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the administrative web pages for Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 through 5.1 allow remote attackers to execute HTML script as other users through (1) a certain ASP file in the IISHELP virtual directory, or (2) possibly other unknown attack vectors.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Information Server: version 4.0 only
• Microsoft Internet Information Services: version 5.0 only

Published 2002-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.