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Status published
Medium
CVE-2015-3998
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpwhois 4.2.5, as used in...
Vulnerability Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpwhois 4.2.5, as used in the adsense-click-fraud-monitoring plugin 1.7.5 for WordPress, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query parameter to whois.php.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
Affected Vendor
clickfraud-monitoring
View all reports →Affected Software
adsense-click-fraud-monitoring, phpwhois
Vulnerable Versions:
1.7.5, 4.2.5
Timeline
Official Publish:
May 17th, 2017
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.