CVE-2002-1442: Google Toolbar

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Google toolbar 1.1.58 and earlier allows remote web sites to perform unauthorized toolbar operations including script execution and file reading in other zones such as "My Computer" by opening a window to tools.google.com or the res: protocol, then using script to modify the window's location to the toolbar's configuration URL, which bypasses the origin verification check.

Affected products

• Google Toolbar: version 1.1.41 only; version 1.1.42 only; version 1.1.43 only; version 1.1.44 only; version 1.1.45 only; version 1.1.47 only; …

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