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Search in Place <= 1.0.104 — Missing Authorization to Feedback Submission

28ca150a-443f-4b99-8c15-491bd9f1cee3Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.0.104Update to 1.0.105 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Search in Place search-in-place

  1. Affected≤ 1.0.104
  2. Patched in1.0.105

Update to 1.0.105 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.0.104. Version 1.0.105 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Search in Place.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.0.105, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Search in Place to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to István Márton.

The Search in Place plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of functionality due to a missing capability check on the feedback_action function in versions up to, and including, 1.0.104. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber access or higher to submit plugin feedback on behalf of the site owner.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Search in Place

All 3
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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.5.5Update to 1.5.6
CVE-2026-95598
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to Feedback Submission
≤1.0.104Update to 1.0.105
CVE-2023-26521

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CVE-2026-120688
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Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter
ELEX WordPress HelpDesk & Customer Ticketing System≤3.3.9Update to 3.4.0
CVE-2026-119077
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CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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