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WordPress Zero-Day Vulnerability Found in ‘Social Warfare’ Plugin

A WordPress plugin with over 70,000 installations was found to have a zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in the wild. The plugin, “Social Warfare,” was open to attacks through use of a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. The flaw would allow attackers to inject malicious JavaScript code into the social share links present on a site’s posts. The Social Warfare plugin is one of the most popular WordPress social media sharing plugins and has more than 805,000 downloads.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/abtv/malware/wordpress-zero-day-vulnerability-found-in-social-warfare-plugin/a/d-id/750426

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