CVE-2015-3998: Clickfraud-Monitoring Adsense-Click-Fraud-Monitoring

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Clickfraud-Monitoring Adsense-Click-Fraud-Monitoring: version 1.7.5 only
• Phpwhois Project Phpwhois: version 4.2.5 only

Published 2017-05-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.