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CVE-2019-9978
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…
Medium6.1Known exploitedEPSS 72.9%
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- mitre
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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as WordPress Social Warfare Plugin Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability.
- Added
- 3 Nov 2021
- Fix due (US federal)
- 3 May 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 72.9% · top 0.5% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (12)
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-social-warfare-plugin-exploited-in-the-wild/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settings-change-persistent-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-social-warfare/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 46794 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/1 (opens in a new tab)
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-9978 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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