Vulnerability CVE-2019-9978
Published: 2019-03-24

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Wordpress Social Warfare Remote Code Execution
Luka Sikic
04.05.2019

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None

 References:
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html
https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html
https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238
https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/
https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settings-change-persistent-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-social-warfare/
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-social-warfare-plugin-exploited-in-the-wild/
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