PT-2017-6718 · Automattic+2 · Wordpress+2

Larry W. Cashdollar + 1 · Published 2017-05-17 · Updated 2017-05-24 · CVE-2015-3998

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions phpwhois version 4.2.5 adsense-click-fraud-monitoring plugin version 1.7.5 for WordPress

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query parameter to "whois.php" API endpoint. This can lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Recommendations For phpwhois version 4.2.5, consider restricting access to the whois.php API endpoint until a patch is available. For adsense-click-fraud-monitoring plugin version 1.7.5, avoid using the query parameter in the whois.php endpoint until the issue is resolved.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-3998

Affected Products

Wordpress

Adsense-Click-Fraud-Monitoring

Phpwhois

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3998 · Security Note
• http://vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=119 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3998 · Note