Social Warfare <= 3.5.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Settings Update

7.2
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2019-9978
CVSS 7.2 (High)
Publicly Published March 21, 2019
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Andrew Wilder

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.

Wordfence blocked 10,865 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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Vulnerability Details for Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug social-warfare (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.5.3, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 3.5.3
Patched Version
  • 3.5.3

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