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Social Warfare Plugin for WordPress < 3.5.3 Remote Code Execution

medium Web App Scanning Plugin ID 98528

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Synopsis

Social Warfare Plugin for WordPress < 3.5.3 Remote Code Execution

Description

The WordPress Social Warfare Plugin installed on the remote host is affected by an eval() injection vulnerability due to a failure to properly sanitize user-supplied input to the 'swp_url' parameter. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can leverage this issue to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code on the affected host.

Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Social Warfare Plugin for WordPress 3.5.3 or latest.

See Also

https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/

https://www.webarxsecurity.com/social-warfare-vulnerability/

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/recent-social-warfare-vulnerability-allowed-remote-code-execution/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 98528

Type: remote

Published: 4/8/2019

Updated: 3/14/2023

Scan Template: basic, full, pci, scan

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9978

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9978

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:2.3:a:warfareplugins:social_warfare:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/24/2019

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 5/3/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9978

BID: 108075