{"cve":"CVE-2019-9978","nvd":{"published":"2019-03-24T15:29:00.243","modified":"2026-06-17T02:44:58.130","status":"Analyzed","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","score":6.1},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"references":["http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html","http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html","https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html","https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099","https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers"],"products":["warfareplugins:social_warfare","warfareplugins:social_warfare_pro"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:55:22.313337056+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2019-9978","score":0.72946,"percentile":0.99452,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":{"cve":"CVE-2019-9978","date_added":"2021-11-03","due_date":"2022-05-03","vendor":"WordPress","product":"Social Warfare Plugin","known_ransomware":false},"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}