CVE-2003-0038
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in options.py for Mailman 2.1 allows remote attackers to inject script or HTML into web pages via…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 4.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in options.py for Mailman 2.1 allows remote attackers to inject script or HTML into web pages via the (1) email or (2) language parameters.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB2 entries
- GNU Mailman 2.1 - 'email' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 22198webapps, cgipublished 24 Jan 2003Verified
- GNU Mailman 2.1 - Error Page Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 22199webapps, cgipublished 24 Jan 2003Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 22 years later
· 22 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.8% · top 8.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPImailmanGHSA-82rm-28q9-435p (opens in a new tab)
References
7
- 20030124 Mailman: cross-site scripting bug (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 9205 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 6677 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1005987 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mailman/xss-2.1.0-patch.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- mailman-email-variable-xss(11152) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- DSA-436 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-1672 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-82rm-28q9-435p (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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