CVE-2019-9978

WordPress Social Warfare Plugin: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

As of , CVE-2019-9978 in WordPress Social Warfare Plugin is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.

Exploited
Yes: CISA listed it on 3 November 2021
US federal deadline
3 May 2022181 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
Used in ransomware campaigns
Not known to CISA
EPSS score
0.73Higher than 99% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS when listed
Not availableCISA listed it before 4 February 2022, where the EPSS files we read begin.
Public exploit
2 Exploit-DB entries
Fix
No vendor link in CISA's entry

What CISA says to do

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA's required action

What the flaw is

WordPress Social Warfare plugin contains a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that allows for remote code execution. This vulnerability affects Social Warfare and Social Warfare Pro.

CISA's 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.

The CVE record's description, from mitre

CVE published
24 March 2019
Assigned by
mitre
CVSS
6.1 Medium (CVSS 3.1, from CISA-ADP)
CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CISA SSVC, exploitation
active
CISA SSVC, automatable
no
CISA SSVC, technical impact
partial

Timeline

  1. The CVE record was published.
  2. Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 46794).
  3. CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  4. The US federal deadline to fix it.
  5. Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 52346).

Public exploits

Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.

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