# CVE-2019-9978

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.

- Page: https://www.vulneraibility.com/cve/CVE-2019-9978
- CVSS: 6.1
- Known exploited: yes, in CISA KEV since 2021-11-03; CISA due date 2022-05-03
- EPSS: 72.95% (percentile 99.5)
- Public exploit code: 2 on Exploit-DB · 17 GitHub proofs of concept · 1 Nuclei template (first 2019-03-25)
- CISA SSVC: exploitation active, automatable no, technical impact partial (assessed 2025-02-07)
- Weakness: CWE-79
- Published: 2019-03-24

## Affected

- warfareplugins:social_warfare
- warfareplugins:social_warfare_pro

## References

- [other] https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238
- [other] https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105
- [other] https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html
- [other] https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-social-warfare-plugin-exploited-in-the-wild/
- [other] https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settings-change-persistent-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-social-warfare/
- [other] https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers
- [other] https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099
- [exploit] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/
- [other] http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- [other] http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- [other] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/1
- [other] https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-9978

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