Adsense Click Fraud Monitoring <= 1.8.6 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

2015-05-11 00:00

Larry W. Cashdollar

Strategic Overview

Status

Unpatched

Affected PluginGoogle AdSense Click-Fraud Monitoring Plugin

Affected Version<= 1.8.6

CVSS6.1Medium

CVECVE-2015-3998

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Vulnerability Overview

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phpwhois 4.2.5, as used in the adsense-click-fraud-monitoring plugin 1.8.6 for WordPress, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query parameter to whois.php.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement. --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')) The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3998 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/974b3894-f4e2-49c7-ba92-eaa5be0b4298

CVSS Vector

6.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeChanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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