CVE-2019-9978
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.1 Medium
- Published
- Mar 24, 2019
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- Reserved
- Mar 24, 2019
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.1 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238
- https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105
- https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-social-warfare-plugin-exploited-in-the-wild/
- https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settings-change-persistent-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-social-warfare/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers
- https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099
- 46794exploit
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/1
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-9978government-resource
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