CVE-2019-9978

warfareplugins social warfare, warfareplugins social warfare pro

Published 24 Mar 2019 · updated 17 Jun 2026 · Analyzed

6.1 Medium · CVSS 3.1, NVD

Exploited in the wild

CISA added this to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 3 Nov 2021, with a remediation deadline of 3 May 2022 for US federal agencies.

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.

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html · Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html · Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html · Exploit, Third Party Advisory
twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099 · Third Party Advisory
wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers · Product
wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238 · Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105 · Exploit, Third Party Advisory
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/ · Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settings-change-persistent-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-social-warfare/ · Exploit, Third Party Advisory
www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-social-warfare-plugin-exploited-in-the-wild/ · Third Party Advisory
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/1 · Mailing List
www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-9978 · US Government Resource