CVE-2019-9978: WordPress Social Warfare <3.5.3 - Cross-Site Scripting
WordPress · Social Warfare Plugin
Affected: WordPress Social Warfare Plugin · Exploitation: in CISA KEV since 3 Nov 2021
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
ExploitationIn CISA KEV
- In CISA KEVCISA KEV catalogue3 Nov 2021
- Exploited (reported): not seen
- Scanning observed: not seen
- Proof of concept public: not seen
- Not established: not seen
Higher than 99% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
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.
On the Atlas
Every published CVE is on the CyberSIXT Atlas, grouped by weakness, vendor and month.
- Exploitation
- Exploited in the wild. Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue.
- CISA KEV
- Listed since 3 Nov 2021 · catalogue entry
- Public check
- WordPress Social Warfare <3.5.3 - Cross-Site Scripting · nuclei template in projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates
- Weakness
- Cross-site Scripting
- Vendor
- WordPress
- Published
- March 2019
What changed
- CISA added it to the KEV catalogue CISA
CoverageNo articles yet
No CyberSIXT article names CVE-2019-9978 yet, so there is no coverage timeline, action brief or change log for it. Everything on this page comes from the public CVE record, CISA KEV, EPSS and the nuclei template index. Search the archive or see the CVEs in the news.
References
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CISA KEV cataloguecisa.gov
- CVE recordcve.org
- Weakness CWE-79cwe.mitre.org
- wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238wpvulndb.com
- cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105cybersecurity-help.cz
- blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.htblog.sucuri.net
- wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-swordfence.com
- pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settingspluginvulnerabilities.com
- wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developerswordpress.org
- twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099twitter.com
- Exploitexploit-db.com
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Repacketstormsecurity.com
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.packetstormsecurity.com
- seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/1seclists.org