Vulnerability database
Every flaw the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency (CISA) has confirmed attackers are using, plus the new WordPress plugin and theme bugs published each day, sorted by what they mean for a small business. We refresh it twice a day. If you see something your website or office runs, tell us.
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May 13, 2026Powie's WHOIS Domain Check 0.9.31 contains a persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript byCVE-2020-37225 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by VulnCheckMedium 5.1
Powie's WHOIS Domain Check 0.9.31 contains a persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript by exploiting unsanitized input fields in plugin settings. Attackers can submit malicious payloads through textarea and input elements in the pwhois_settings.php configuration page to execute JavaScript in the admin context and escalate privileges.
- What to do
- Update the plugin to the newest version.
Sep 13, 2019The wp-whois-domain plugin 1.0.0 for WordPress has XSS via the pages/func-whois.php domain parameter.CVE-2017-18612 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by MITREMedium 6.1
The wp-whois-domain plugin 1.0.0 for WordPress has XSS via the pages/func-whois.php domain parameter.
- Affected
- 1.0.0 to 1.0.0
- What to do
- Affects 1.0.0 to 1.0.0. Update the plugin to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordrastating.github.iowordpress.org
May 17, 2017Cross-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 toCVE-2015-3998 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by MITREMedium 6.1
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.
- Product
- adsense-click-fraud-monitoring
- Affected
- 1.7.5 to 1.7.5
- What to do
- Affects 1.7.5 to 1.7.5. Update adsense-click-fraud-monitoring to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordvapid.dhs.orgvapid.dhs.org
Sep 23, 2012Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vendors/samswhois/samswhois.inc.php in the Whois Search plugin before 1.4.2.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers CVE-2011-5194 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by MITREMedium 4.3
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vendors/samswhois/samswhois.inc.php in the Whois Search plugin before 1.4.2.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the domain parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-5193.
- Product
- Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vendors/samswhois/samswhois.inc.php in the Whois Search
- Fixed in
- 1.4.2.3
- What to do
- Update Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vendors/samswhois/samswhois.inc.php in the Whois Search to 1.4.2.3 or newer.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordpacketstormsecurity.orgplugins.trac.wordpress.org
Sep 23, 2012Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vendors/samswhois/samswhois.inc.php in the Whois Search plugin 1.4.2.3 for WordPress, when the WHOIS widget is enablCVE-2011-5193 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by MITRELow 2.6
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vendors/samswhois/samswhois.inc.php in the Whois Search plugin 1.4.2.3 for WordPress, when the WHOIS widget is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the domain parameter to index.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-5194.
- Product
- Whois Search
- What to do
- Update Whois Search to the newest version.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordsecunia.comsecunia.com
Where this comes from: the exploited list is CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Everything else is the whole National Vulnerability Database, where each record is published by the team that found the bug (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan, the vendors themselves and others); we show who. Exploit odds are FIRST’s EPSS, updated daily. Titles and categories are ours, so check the linked record before acting on a detail. For a write-up of the big ones, see our advisories. Every vendor, and every WordPress plugin and theme with a recorded flaw, also has its own page. All of it is free to reuse as JSON, CSV or RSS.
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