""ET WEB_CLIENT Attempted RCE in Wordpress Social Warfare Plugin Inbound (CVE-2019-9978)""

SID: 2027315

Revision: 2

Class Type: attempted-admin

Metadata: affected_product Wordpress_Plugins, created_at 2019_05_03, cve CVE_2019_9978, deployment Perimeter, performance_impact Low, signature_severity Major, updated_at 2019_05_03

Reference:

Protocol: tcp

Source Network: $EXTERNAL_NET

Source Port: any

Destination Network: $HTTP_SERVERS

Destination Port: $HTTP_PORTS

Flow: established,to_server

Contents:

  • Value: "GET"

  • Value: "wp-admin/admin-post.php?swp_debug=load_options&swp_url="

Within:

PCRE: "/&swap_url=https?:\/\//U"

Special Options:

  • http_method

  • http_uri

  • fast_pattern

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