CVE-2002-2436: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 4.0, Thunderbird before 3.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.1 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

  • Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 3.6.24; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …
  • Mozilla Seamonkey: up to and including 2.1; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …
  • Mozilla Thunderbird: up to and including 3.1.16; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …

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