# CVE-2019-9978: WordPress Social Warfare Plugin Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

> CVE-2019-9978: WordPress Social Warfare Plugin Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability. CVSS 6.1 (CVSS 3.1), in CISA KEV.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2019-9978
Last updated: 2025-10-21T23:45:41Z

- Published: 2019-03-24 14:47 UTC · Updated: 2025-10-21 23:45 UTC · Assigner: mitre
- CVSS: 6.1 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS: 72.9%, 99th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: yes, added 2021-11-03, federal due date 2022-05-03, ransomware use: Unknown

## 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.

## CISA required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

## Affected vendors and products

- WordPress: Social Warfare Plugin

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9978)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9978)
- [http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html](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://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html)
- [https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html](https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html)
- [https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099](https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099)
- [https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/\#developers](https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers)
- [https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238](https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238)
- [https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105](https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105)
- [https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/](https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/)
- [https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settings-change-persistent-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-social-warfare/](https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settings-change-persistent-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-social-warfare/)
- [https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-social-warfare-plugin-exploited-in-the-wild/](https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-social-warfare-plugin-exploited-in-the-wild/)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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