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How to FIX Apache Cordova vulnerabilities in my mobile app

I'm trying to make a mobile app using Dreamweaver and Phonegap. it all went OK but when I trying to upload my APK to the Google developer console, I got this mail....
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Hello Google Play Developer,
We rejected [Myappname], with package name [packagename], for violating our Malicious Behavior or User Data policy. If you submitted an update, the previous version of your app is still available on Google Play.
This app uses software that contains security vulnerabilities for users or allows the collection of user data without proper disclosure.
Below is the list of issues and the corresponding APK versions that were detected in your recent submission. Please upgrade your app(s) as soon as possible and increment the version number of the upgraded APK.
Apache Cordova
The vulnerabilities were fixed in Apache Cordova v.4.1.1 or higher.
You can find information about how to upgrade in this Google Help Center article.
"
Please someone help me with this.How do I fix it...?
Here is my config.xml file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<widget xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets"
xmlns:gap = "http://phonegap.com/ns/1.0"
id = "com.phonegap.myapp"
versionCode = "11"
version = "1.0.0" >
<!-- versionCode is optional and Android only -->
<name>My App Name</name>
<description>
description
</description>
<author href="https://author.com" email="info#author.com">
author
</author>
<preference name="phonegap-version" value="3.7.0" />
<preference name="windows-identity-name" value="PhonegapBuild.PGBDeveloper" />
<plugin name="cordova-plugin-inappbrowser" spec="1.3.0" />
<plugin name="cordova-plugin-device" spec="1.1.2" />
<plugin name="cordova-plugin-splashscreen" spec="3.2.2" />
<splash src="splash.png" />
<!-- Define app icon for each platform. -->
<icon src="img/icon.png" />
<icon src="img/icon/android/icon-36-ldpi.png" gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="ldpi" />
<icon src="img/icon/android/icon-48-mdpi.png" gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="mdpi" />
<icon src="img/icon/android/icon-72-hdpi.png" gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="hdpi" />
<icon src="img/icon/android/icon-96-xhdpi.png" gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="xhdpi" />
<icon src="img/icon/blackberry/icon-80.png" gap:platform="blackberry" />
<icon src="img/icon/blackberry/icon-80.png" gap:platform="blackberry" gap:state="hover"/>
<icon src="img/icon/ios/icon-57.png" gap:platform="ios" width="57" height="57" />
<icon src="img/icon/ios/icon-72.png" gap:platform="ios" width="72" height="72" />
<icon src="img/icon/ios/icon-57-2x.png" gap:platform="ios" width="114" height="114" />
<icon src="img/icon/ios/icon-72-2x.png" gap:platform="ios" width="144" height="144" />
<icon src="img/icon/webos/icon-64.png" gap:platform="webos" />
<icon src="img/icon/windows-phone/icon-48.png" gap:platform="winphone" />
<icon src="img/icon/windows-phone/icon-173.png" gap:platform="winphone" gap:role="background" />
<preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="5000" />
</widget>

As its mentioned clearly in the rejection message, you are using very old version of Cordova (4.x)
Try upgrading your app to latest version of Cordova (6.x) You may have to reinstall some plugins in this process and may have to retest the app once. But the latest version of Cordova fixes most of the security vulnerabilities for you. We recently got certified our apps in iOS app store that uses Cordova 6.x

phonegap android app does not show my app icon :(

I am working on an android app with phonegap. I have tried all sorts of stuff to get my icon on the app, but have been unsuccessful. The android bot icon appears on the app when installed from apk.
I have this in config.xml:
<icon density="ldpi" src="www/res/icon/android/ldpi.png" />
<icon density="mdpi" src="www/res/icon/android/mdpi.png" />
<icon density="hdpi" src="www/res/icon/android/hdpi.png" />
<icon density="xhdpi" src="www/res/icon/android/xhdpi.png" />
<icon density="xxhdpi" src="www/res/icon/android/xxhdpi.png" />
I read http://devgirl.org/2013/09/12/phonegap-icons-and-splash-screens-help/
and the steps given here are already happening.
In my /platforms/android/res/ the desired icons and screens appear in the right drawable folder.
I dont know what i am doing wrong. cant just get the icon to show up.
I am not using the phonegap desktop app

Use the same filename (ic_launcher.png is the default and most common one) for all icons, while they are in different folders, and change your icons call in the config.xml file to this:
<icon src="folder-hdpi/ic_launcher.png"
gap:platform="android"
gap:density="hdpi"/>
<icon src="folder-mdpi/ic_launcher.png"
gap:platform="android"
gap:density="mdpi"/>
<icon src="folder-xhdpi/ic_launcher.png"
gap:platform="android"
gap:density="xhdpi"/>
<icon src="folder-xxhdpi/ic_launcher.png"
gap:platform="android"
gap:density="xxhdpi"/>
<icon src="folder-xxxhdpi/ic_launcher.png"
gap:platform="android"
gap:density="xxxhdpi"/>

icons and splash screens not copied from phonegap to android platform

I created custom icons and splash screens for my phonegap android application. I created the phonegap application by using 'phonegap create' and I replaced all the stock icons and splash screens with custom made icons and splash screens.
Below is my folder structure of the images and splash after executing 'phonegap create' command
-myproject
--www
---icon.png
---res
----icon
-----android
------icon-36-ldpi.png
------icon-48-mdpi.png
------icon-72-hdpi.png
------icon-96-xhdpi.png
----screen
-----android
------screen-hdpi-landscape.png
------screen-hdpi-portrait.png
------screen-ldpi-landscape.png
------screen-ldpi-portrait.png
------screen-mdpi-landscape.png
------screen-mdpi-portrait.png
------screen-xhdpi-landscape.png
------screen-xhdpi-portrait.png
Below is the config.xml
<icon src="www/icon.png" />
<icon gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="ldpi" src="www/res/icon/android/icon-36-ldpi.png" />
<icon gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="mdpi" src="www/res/icon/android/icon-48-mdpi.png" />
<icon gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="hdpi" src="www/res/icon/android/icon-72-hdpi.png" />
<icon gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="xhdpi" src="www/res/icon/android/icon-96-xhdpi.png" />
Now I execute the 'phonegap build android' I dont see all the icons and splash screens are not copied to platforms\android\res folder. I only see the stock phonegap icons and splash screens.
I dont want to manually copy the icons and splash screens for each platform. It should happen automatically while building the phonegap for a target platoform. How should I do that.

Problem solved after moving the config.xml inside www folder and removed all www/ references in config.xml.
I.e,. the image paths should be relative where the config.xml exists.

Other way (works for me) using gap:density="ldpi" without moving any file
<icon gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="ldpi" gap:density="ldpi" src="www/res/icon/android/icon-36-ldpi.png" />
<icon gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="mdpi" gap:density="mdpi" src="www/res/icon/android/icon-48-mdpi.png" />
<icon gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="hdpi" gap:density="hdpi" src="www/res/icon/android/icon-72-hdpi.png" />
<icon gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="xhdpi" gap:density="xhdpi" src="www/res/icon/android/icon-96-xhdpi.png" />

Phonegap Android app icon refuses to update

I've tried:
changing the file at myapp/platforms/android/res/drawable/icon.png
editing the tag in www/config.xml
minor sacrifices
thanks!

If you have correctly updated your icon files in platforms/ios/YourAppName/Resources/icons and you still can't see the change then make sure you:
Completely remove the app from your device
In Xcode go to Product > Clean and then re run your app.

You need to replace all icon files in res folder.
Once you done, just clean your eclipse project and run.

although you accepted a different answer, that did not help me so for some of you reading this please note the following:
the accepted answer will work most probably only if u build ur
app locally
u do not need to overwrite the default platform icons
... phonegap lets you overwrite everything from the config.xmlfile
you need to use something like this in you config.xml:
<icon src="icon.png" />
<icon gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="ldpi" src="img/icons/android/icon-36-ldpi.png" />
<icon gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="mdpi" src="img/icons/android/icon-48-mdpi.png" />
<icon gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="hdpi" src="img/icons/android/icon-72-hdpi.png" />
<icon gap:platform="android" gap:qualifier="xhdpi" src="img/icons/android/icon-96-xhdpi.png" />
<icon gap:platform="ios" height="57" src="img/icons/ios/icon-57.png" width="57" />
<icon gap:platform="ios" height="72" src="img/icons/ios/icon-72.png" width="72" />
<icon gap:platform="ios" height="114" src="img/icons/ios/icon-57-2x.png" width="114" />
<icon gap:platform="ios" height="144" src="img/icons/ios/icon-72-2x.png" width="144" />
<icon gap:platform="winphone" src="img/icons/windows-phone/icon-48.png" />
<icon gap:platform="winphone" gap:role="background" src="img/icons/windows-phone/icon-173-tile.png" />
please note that the path is img/bla-bla-bla ... it can be whatever
you want ... BUT ... that path it is relative to you www folder ...
so it will actually map to www/img/bla-bla-bla
hope this helps someone ... i found it the hard way :)
Rares

PhoneGap is not loading correct icons/splash screens for iOS

I'm building a Sencha Touch + PhoneGap app for android and iOS (iPhone & iPad). I'm having major issues with PhoneGap choosing the correct icons and splash screens to display for the correct devices.
For example:
Android loads the correct main icon, however, it will load a splash screen that is very pixelated (I believe its loading one for the 320x460 iphone screen.)
iOS on both iPhone and iPad are showing the android icon and not loading the correct splash screens.
I'm really stuck on this and would appreciate any input on the matter, thanks in advance!
My code for config.xml is below:
<icon src="res/icons/icon.png" />
<icon src="res/icons/icon-blackberry-92.png" default="true" />
<icon src="res/icons/icon-blackberry-92-hover.png" hover="true" />
<icon src="res/icons/icon.png" width="57" height="57"/>
<icon src="res/icons/icon-72.png" width="72" height="72"/>
<icon src="res/icons/icon#2x.png" width="114" height="114"/>
<icon src="res/icons/icon-android-36.png" width="36" height="36"/>
<icon src="res/icons/icon-android-48.png" width="48" height="48"/>
<icon src="res/icons/icon-android-72.png" width="72" height="72"/>
<gap:splash src="res/splash/Default#2x.png" width="640" height="960" />
<gap:splash src="res/splash/Default.png" width="320" height="460" />
<gap:splash src="res/splash/splash-screen-ios-ipad.png" width="786" height="1024" />
<gap:splash src="res/splash/splash-screen-400x800.png" width="400" height="800" />
<gap:splash src="res/splash/Default.png" />

You need to specify the launch image file (UILaunchImageFile) property in your application's info.plist:
For example, if you set the value for the key UILaunchImageFile~ipad to iPad, your file names should be iPad-Portrait.png and iPad-Landscape.png. You could similarly change it for the iPhone, or use the default (Default.png) for iPhone.
This is defined in Information Property List Files.

In the newest Phonegap Xcode build, you can drag and drop the images you want to use as splashscreens or icons into the GUI area in XCode under Targets/Summary. That should allow you to add those in directly. What version of Xcode are you using ?? I can add in more specific details if I know what version it is.