CVE-2015-3998

MediumCVSS 6.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 6.1/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=119Third Party Advisory
http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=119Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: May 17, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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