XSS in Clickfraud-Monitoring Adsense-Click-Fraud-Monitoring
CVE-2015-3998
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.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
EPSS: 0.011 (62.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.
Affected products
- Clickfraud-monitoring Adsense-click-fraud-monitoring — versions 1.7.5
- Phpwhois_project Phpwhois — versions 4.2.5
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2015-3998?
- CVE-2015-3998 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Clickfraud-Monitoring Adsense-Click-Fraud-Monitoring, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-05-17.
- How severe is CVE-2015-3998?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2015-3998 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.