CVE-2019-9978: WordPress Social Warfare Plugin Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability
Medium · CVSS 6.1 (CVSS 3.1)KEV known exploitedEPSS 72.9%, 99th percentilePublished Updated Assigner: mitre
In CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: WordPress Social Warfare Plugin Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability.
Added , federal remediation due . Known ransomware use: Unknown.
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
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.
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Status incidents that name it
No tracked status incident names this CVE.
Affected vendors and products
WordPress: Social Warfare Plugin
References
- CVE record on cve.org (opens in new tab)
- NVD entry (opens in new tab)
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in new tab)
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remote-Code-Execution.htm… (opens in new tab)
- blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html (opens in new tab)
- twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099 (opens in new tab)
- wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/ (opens in new tab)
- wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238 (opens in new tab)
- www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105 (opens in new tab)
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/ (opens in new tab)
- www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settings-change-persistent-cross-site-s… (opens in new tab)
- www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-social-warfare-plugi… (opens in new tab)
- CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (opens in new tab)
- This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (opens in new tab)
- Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (opens in new tab)
- EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (opens in new tab)