CVE-2019-9978

MEDIUM6.1

CISA KEV

Published 2019-03-24 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source cve@mitre.org

Summary

CVE-2019-9978 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability in WordPress Social Warfare Plugin. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on November 3, 2021, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by May 3, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. WordPress has 7 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.

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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

CWE-79CWE-79

CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability

Product: WordPress — Social Warfare Plugin

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

Date added: 2021-11-03 · Due: 2022-05-03

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

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