Social Warfare <= 3.5.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Settings Update

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2019-9978
CVSS High (7.2)
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug social-warfare (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.5.3
Patched Version
  • 3.5.3
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