CVE-2002-1396: PHP

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the wordwrap function in PHP after 4.1.2 and before 4.3.0 may allow attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: version 4.1.2 only; version 4.2.0 only; version 4.2.1 only; version 4.2.2 only; version 4.2.3 only

Published 2003-01-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.