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CVE-2019-9978 Detail

Current 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.

Source:  MITRE
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Impact

CVSS v3.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.1 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N (V3.0 legend)
Impact Score: 2.7
Exploitability Score: 2.8

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.3 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Partial
Availability (A): None
Additional Information:
Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Allows unauthorized modification

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

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

  • Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE-79)

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

Configuration 1 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:a:warfareplugins:social_warfare:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
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Up to (excluding)
3.5.3
 cpe:2.3:a:warfareplugins:social_warfare_pro:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
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Up to (excluding)
3.5.3


Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2019-9978
NVD Published Date:
03/24/2019
NVD Last Modified:
05/07/2019