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CVE-2019-9978

medium · 6.1Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Added 2021-11-03Remediation due 2022-05-03

A public exploit / detection template exists

Weaponised detection is publicly available, which meaningfully raises real-world risk regardless of CVSS. nuclei-templates

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.

6.1
CVSS
72.9%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
99th
EPSS percentile
2019-03-24
Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
warfarepluginssocial_warfare< 3.5.3
warfarepluginssocial_warfare_pro< 3.5.3

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References

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