CVE-2004-1686: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 10.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 6.0 in Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Information Bar prompt for ActiveX and Javascript via an XHTML page that contains an Internet Explorer formatted comment between the DOCTYPE tag and the HTML tag, as demonstrated using the DesignScience MathPlayer ActiveX plugin.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6.0 only

Published 2004-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.