CVE-2003-0446: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) in Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0, possibly in a component that is also used by other Microsoft products, allows remote attackers to insert arbitrary web script via an XML file that contains a parse error, which inserts the script in the resulting error message.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2003-07-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.