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CVE-2019-9978

CVE-2019-9978MEDIUM

n/a n/a — WordPress Social Warfare Plugin

  AV  AC  PR  UI  S  C  I  A   CVSS    EPSS   %ile   KEV
   N   L   N   R  C  L  L  N    6.1   .7295   99.4   YES

AFFECTED
  Product  Versions  Fixed
  n/a      n/a –     —

TIMELINE
  Mar 24  Reserved by mitre
  Mar 24  Published (CNA: mitre)
  Nov 3   Added to CISA KEV, remediation due 2022-05-03

CWE-79 · CNA: mitre · CVSS v3.1 · 12 references · KEV due May 3, 2022

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.

Lifecycle

Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
Date	Event	Detail
March 24, 2019	Reserved	Reserved by mitre
March 24, 2019	Published	Published (CNA: mitre)
November 3, 2021	KEV ADDED	Added to CISA KEV, remediation due 2022-05-03

Affected

Affected products and packages — 1 row
Vendor	Product / Package	Ecosystem	Version introduced	Fixed
n/a	n/a	—	n/a	—

Weaknesses

CWE-79

References (12)

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html [x_refsource_MISC]
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html [x_refsource_MISC]
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/1
https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html [x_refsource_MISC]
https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099 [x_refsource_MISC]
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers [x_refsource_MISC]
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238 [x_refsource_MISC]
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-9978 [government-resource]
https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105 [x_refsource_MISC]
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/ [exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB]
https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settings-change-persistent-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-social-warfare/ [x_refsource_MISC]
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-social-warfare-plugin-exploited-in-the-wild/ [x_refsource_MISC]

Authoritative record: CVE-2019-9978 at cve.org

Weaknesses: CWE-79

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