CVE-2019-9978
Medium 6.1 Exploited in the wild (KEV)
Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog
- Name
- WordPress Social Warfare Plugin Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability
- Added to catalog
- Remediation due date (US federal)
- 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.
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
-
6.1 (MEDIUM)
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 73% (percentile: 99) as of 1 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-79
Affected products
warfareplugins: social warfare; warfareplugins: social warfare pro
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Cod… ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remo… ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html ExploitThird Party Advisory
- https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105 ExploitThird Party Advisory
- https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settings-ch… ExploitThird Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Cod… ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remo… ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html ExploitThird Party Advisory
- https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105 ExploitThird Party Advisory
- https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settings-ch… ExploitThird Party Advisory