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FKIE_CVE-2019-9978

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-03-24 15:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:44

Severity

6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Summary

The social-warfare plugin before 3.5.3 for WordPress has stored XSS via the wp-admin/admin-post.php?swp_debug=load_options swp_url parameter, as exploited in the wild in March 2019. This affects Social Warfare and Social Warfare Pro.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org	https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers	Product
cve@mitre.org	https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238	Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org	https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settings-change-persistent-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-social-warfare/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-social-warfare-plugin-exploited-in-the-wild/	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/1	Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers	Product
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238	Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settings-change-persistent-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-social-warfare/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-social-warfare-plugin-exploited-in-the-wild/	Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-9978	US Government Resource

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	warfareplugins	social_warfare	*
	warfareplugins	social_warfare_pro	*

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CVE-2019-9978 (GCVE-0-2019-9978)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-03-24 14:47 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:45

Summary

Severity

6.1 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: active Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-02-07 16:20 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

12 references

URL	Tags
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105	x_refsource_MISC
https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-x…	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-…	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/…	x_refsource_MISC
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#dev…	x_refsource_MISC
https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852…	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/	exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordp…	x_refsource_MISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordP…	x_refsource_MISC
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/1
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilit…	government-resource

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Sightings

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Nomenclature

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