{"id":"CVE-2019-9978","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-9978","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:23:33.464Z","title":"WordPress Social Warfare Plugin Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability","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. 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