Vulnerability · Published Nov 29, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-43698

Medium 6.1

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 50% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.1Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 49.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

phpWhois (last update Jun 30 2021) is affected by a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. In file example.php, the exit function will terminate the script and print the message to the user. The message will contain $_GET['query'] then there is a XSS vulnerability.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/sparc/phpWhois.org/issues/21 x_refsource_MISC