Detections
Analytics
CVE-2019-9978
medium
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
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/
https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099
https://github.com/iAm-182/wp-cve-alert
https://github.com/TokyoHunter/CVE-2019-9978-Social-Warfare-WordPress-RCE
https://github.com/B4ntGrim/Vuln_Remediation_MegaQuagga
https://github.com/B4ntGrim/Vuln_Exploitation_MegaQuagga_Pentest
https://github.com/aktia1/MegaQuagga_Pentesting_Report
https://github.com/Housma/CVE-2019-9978-Social-Warfare-WordPress-Plugin-RCE
https://github.com/MAHajian/CVE-2019-9978
https://github.com/h8handles/CVE-2019-9978-Python3
https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-9978
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-19332
https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/1
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html