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Search Exclude <= 1.2.3 — Arbitrary Settings Change

CVE-2019-15895Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <1.2.4Update to 1.2.4 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High7.5
CVSS
7.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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:N Confidentiality
None
I:H Integrity
High
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Search Exclude search-exclude

  1. Affected< 1.2.4
  2. Patched in1.2.4

Update to 1.2.4 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.2.4. Version 1.2.4 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 Exclude.
  • 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 1.2.4, 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 Exclude to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Jerome Bruandet.

search-exclude.php in the "Search Exclude" plugin before 1.2.4 for WordPress allows unauthenticated options changes.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Search Exclude

All 4
More vulnerabilities in Search Exclude
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.3Search Exclude <= 2.5.7 – Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Search Settings Modification via REST API
≤2.5.7Update to 2.5.8
CVE-2025-10646
Medium5.3Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Plugin Settings Modification
≤2.4.9Update to 2.5.0
CVE-2025-2821
Medium5.5Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.2.6Update to 1.2.7
CVE-2022-36282

Same weakness (Missing Authorization)

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.5

  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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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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