CVE-2002-2169: Aol Instant Messenger

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting vulnerability AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.5 and 4.7 for MacOS and Windows allows remote attackers to conduct unauthorized activities, such as adding buddies and groups to a user's buddy list, via a URL with a META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" tag to an aim: URL.

Affected products

• Aol Instant Messenger: version 4.5 only; version 4.7 only; version 4.7.2480 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.