Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published May 17, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2015-3998
CVE-2015-3998
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.
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Affected products
4- cpe:2.3:a:clickfraud-monitoring:adsense-click-fraud-monitoring:1.7.5:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:phpwhois_project:phpwhois:4.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:phpwhois_project:phpwhois:4.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <=4.2.5
- Range: <=1.7.5
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.phpnvdThird Party Advisory
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