WordPress Social Warfare Plugin Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability
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.
A remote attacker, without authentication, can achieve partial data exposure, partial data tampering. Federal agencies are required to remediate by 2022-05-03 under CISA BOD 22-01.
This is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79) vulnerability in WordPress Social Warfare Plugin. 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. Exploitation requires remote network access, low attack complexity, no authentication required, and user interaction required.
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Phishing link
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Malicious file
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Server compromised
Probably yes if any of these apply:
Active exploitation documented in the wild. Threat-research write-up: http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152722/Wordpress-Social-Warfare-Remote-Code-Execution.html
Manual remediation steps
Apply the Vendor Patch
This vulnerability is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — apply the vendor's security update as soon as possible.
CISA required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
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