CVE-2019-9978

Published: Mar 24, 2019

Modified: Oct 21, 2025

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

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-xss-in-social-warfare.html

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

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://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers

x_refsource_MISC

https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099

x_refsource_MISC

46794

exploit

x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

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

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CVE-2019-9978

Description

Affected Products

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