CVE-2019-9978

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    CVE-2019-9978

    Published: 24 Mar 2019Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-9978, https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099, https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238, https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/, https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-social-warfare-plugin-exploited-in-the-wild/, http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/1, 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, https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html, https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105, https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settings-change-persistent-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-social-warfare/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -20d9ee2a588f4a1f220eb8eab7156547453cded7

    Affected versions

    3.5.2
    3.5.1
    3.5.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    CVE-2019-9978 | CVE-DB