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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

This CVE is actively exploited in the wild. CISA mandates federal agencies to patch immediately.

CVE

CVE-2019-9978

6.1

CVSSmedium

Exploitable remotely over the internet · no authentication required · user interaction needed.

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.

Attack Vector

Network

Privileges Req.

None

User Interaction

Required

Updated Oct 12, 2026View on NVD →

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