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

Medium severity · published Mar 24, 2019

CVE-2019-9978

WordPress Social Warfare Plugin Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

In wildKEV

6.1

CVSS

72.9%

EPSS

Yes

On KEV

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack vector

Network

Complexity

Low

Privileges

None

User interaction

Required

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Scope

Changed

Exploitation

Is it being used?

Exploit prediction (EPSS)72.9% · higher than 99% of CVEs

Exploited in the wildYes

CISA KEVListed Nov 3, 2021

Federal remediation dueMay 3, 2022

Ransomware campaign useNot known

Affected products

Which versions

WordPress · WordPress

All versions, or not specified · source: KEV

Social Warfare · Warfareplugins

before 3.5.3 · source: NVD

Social Warfare Pro · Warfareplugins

before 3.5.3 · source: NVD

Affected product

WordPress

All WordPress CVEs

References

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9978

CVE.org

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9978

CISA KEV catalogue

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

x_refsource_MISC

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