Known Exploited Vulnerability
6.1
MEDIUM
CVE-2019-9978
WordPress Social Warfare Plugin Cross-Site Scripti - [Actively Exploited]
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.

INFO

Published Date :

March 24, 2019, 3:29 p.m.

Last Modified :

July 25, 2024, 2:57 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

2.7

Exploitability Score :

2.8
CISA Notification
CISA KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities)

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Description :

WordPress Social Warfare plugin contains a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that allows for remote code execution. This vulnerability affects Social Warfare and Social Warfare Pro.

Required Action :

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2019-9978 has a 29 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2019-9978 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Warfareplugins social_warfare
2 Warfareplugins social_warfare_pro

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

None

Dockerfile Shell

Updated: 7 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 18, 2024, 1:01 a.m. This repo has been linked 4 different CVEs too.

None

CSS HTML JavaScript

Updated: 7 months, 2 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 2, 2024, 2:11 p.m. This repo has been linked 494 different CVEs too.

None

Dockerfile Shell PHP HTML JavaScript

Updated: 8 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Jan. 13, 2024, 1:26 p.m. This repo has been linked 4 different CVEs too.

cve-2019-9978 PoC

Python

Updated: 10 months, 1 week ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Nov. 9, 2023, 3:01 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

None

Dockerfile Shell PHP HTML JavaScript Perl Sass CSS SCSS Makefile

Updated: 10 months, 3 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Oct. 27, 2023, 9:19 a.m. This repo has been linked 4 different CVEs too.

Exploits working {tested my me} for various scenarios

cve-2023-0386 ubuntu-overlay-fs cve-2023-38646 metabase-preauth-rce cve-2023-46604 reverse-shell reverse-shells apache-mq-rce cve cve-2024-23897 exploits jenkins kernel-exploitation security web-exploits

Python PHP C Makefile

Updated: 4 months, 1 week ago
2 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Oct. 26, 2023, 2:26 p.m. This repo has been linked 11 different CVEs too.

None

Python

Updated: 11 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Oct. 18, 2023, 7:44 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

python3 version of the CVE-2019-9978 exploit

Python

Updated: 1 year ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Aug. 20, 2023, 8:27 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

None

Python PHP

Updated: 9 months ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : March 14, 2023, 3:53 p.m. This repo has been linked 3 different CVEs too.

Remote Code Execution in Social Warfare Plugin before 3.5.3 for Wordpress.

Python

Updated: 6 months ago
3 stars 2 fork 2 watcher
Born at : Jan. 20, 2023, 4:29 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

Social WarFare Plugin (<=3.5.2) Remote Code Execution

Shell

Updated: 9 months, 2 weeks ago
2 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Nov. 15, 2022, 1:22 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 2 years, 2 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : July 6, 2022, 8:40 a.m. This repo has been linked 157 different CVEs too.

None

Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : July 6, 2022, 8:40 a.m. This repo has been linked 153 different CVEs too.

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cisa-kev vulnerability 0day cisa exploits

Updated: 1 week, 5 days ago
516 stars 32 fork 32 watcher
Born at : April 19, 2022, 8:58 a.m. This repo has been linked 1181 different CVEs too.

安全类各家文库大乱斗

HTML CSS JavaScript Go Python Shell C

Updated: 1 week, 6 days ago
856 stars 214 fork 214 watcher
Born at : Feb. 15, 2022, 3:14 a.m. This repo has been linked 568 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2019-9978 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2019-9978 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Jul. 25, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed CVSS V3 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    Changed Reference Type http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html No Types Assigned http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers Product, Third Party Advisory https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers Product
    Changed Reference Type https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238 Third Party Advisory https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 30, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163680/WordPress-Social-Warfare-3.5.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    May. 07, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html No Types Assigned http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/ No Types Assigned https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 04, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 03, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46794/ [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 26, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 Metadata Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    Changed Reference Type https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html No Types Assigned https://blog.sucuri.net/2019/03/zero-day-stored-xss-in-social-warfare.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2019/03/21/full-disclosure-of-settings-change-persistent-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-social-warfare/ No Types Assigned 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
    Changed Reference Type https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-social-warfare-plugin-exploited-in-the-wild/ No Types Assigned https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/03/unpatched-zero-day-vulnerability-in-social-warfare-plugin-exploited-in-the-wild/ Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105 No Types Assigned https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2019032105 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099 No Types Assigned https://twitter.com/warfareplugins/status/1108852747099652099 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers No Types Assigned https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-warfare/#developers Product, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238 No Types Assigned https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238 Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-79
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:warfareplugins:social_warfare:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* versions up to (excluding) 3.5.3 *cpe:2.3:a:warfareplugins:social_warfare_pro:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* versions up to (excluding) 3.5.3
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 26, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9238 [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2019-9978 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2019-9978 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

96.57 }} -0.20%

score

0.99651

percentile

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