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3 vulnerabilities found for social_warfare_pro by warfareplugins
FKIE_CVE-2019-9978
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-03-24 15:29 - Updated: 2025-11-07 19:33
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| warfareplugins | social_warfare | * | |
| warfareplugins | social_warfare_pro | * |
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CVE-2019-9978 (GCVE-0-2019-9978)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-03-24 14:47 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:45
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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CVE-2019-9978 (GCVE-0-2019-9978)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2019-03-24 14:47 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:45
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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