VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2019-9978

unknown KEV
Published 2021-11-03 · Modified 2021-11-03
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.5

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.

CISA KEV

Vendor
WordPress
Product
Social Warfare Plugin
Due date
2022-05-03

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
99%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-52346 webapps multiple
Huseyin Mardinli · 2025-06-26

Social Warfare WordPress Plugin 3.5.2 - Remote Code Execution (RCE)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-46794 webapps php
hash3liZer · 2019-05-03

WordPress Plugin Social Warfare < 3.5.3 - Remote Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.