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Ajax Search Lite < 3.11 — Remote Code Execution

CVE-2014-4663Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <3.11Update to 3.11 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter ajax-search-lite

  1. Affected< 3.11
  2. Patched in3.11

Update to 3.11 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 3.11. Version 3.11 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 3.11, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to @u0x (Pichaya Morimoto).

The Ajax Search Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in versions up to, and including, 3.10 via the TimThumb’s "Webshot" feature. This allows unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the server.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.5Unauthenticated SQL Injection
≤4.14.6Update to 4.14.7
CVE-2026-111852
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤4.14.5Update to 4.14.6
CVE-2026-110360
High8.1Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
≤4.14.4Update to 4.14.5
CVE-2026-28139
High8.1Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
≤4.14.4Update to 4.14.5
CVE-2026-16258
Medium6.6Authenticated (Administrator+) PHP Object Injection
≤4.13.3Update to 4.13.4
CVE-2025-48086

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
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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