CVE-2019-9978

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.1
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2019-9978
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2019-03-24T15:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-07-30T14:15:12
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-79 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:warfareplugins:social_warfare:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* 1 OR 3.5.3
cpe:2.3:a:warfareplugins:social_warfare_pro:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* 1 OR 3.5.3
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • LOW
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 6.1
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 2.7
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-social-warfare-plugin-exploited-in-the-wild/ Third Party Advisory
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.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105 Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers Product Third Party Advisory
https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099 Third Party Advisory
https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238 Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/ Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9978
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-9978
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 06:59:01 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 18:34:04 2019-03-24T15:29Z 2019-03-24T15:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 18:34:04 2021-07-30T14:15:12 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 18:34:04 Modified Vulnerability Status updated