CVE-2002-2435: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 13.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 and earlier does not properly handle the :visited pseudo-class, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages via a crafted HTML document, a related issue to CVE-2010-2264.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 7.0.6000.16711 only; version 8.0.7600.16385 only; version 8.0b only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: up to and including 8; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.1 only; version 3.2 only; …

Published 2011-12-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.