CVE-2019-9978 on CISA KEV

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.

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

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.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• wpvulndb.com — https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238
• www.cybersecurity-help.cz — https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105
• blog.sucuri.net — https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html
• www.wordfence.com — https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-socia…
• www.pluginvulnerabilities.com — https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settings-cha…
• wordpress.org — https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers
• twitter.com — https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099
• www.exploit-db.com — https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code…
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remot…

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
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06Detection

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