Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin <= 5.5.6 — Information Exposure via AJAX Search Form
CVE-2024-6835Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤5.5.6Update to 5.5.7 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-200 Information Exposure
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin add-search-to-menu
- Affected≤ 5.5.6
- Patched in5.5.7
Update to 5.5.7 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 5.5.6. Version 5.5.7 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin.
- 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
- Update to version 5.5.7, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to stealthcopter.
The Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.6 via the ajax_load_posts function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract text data from password-protected posts using the boolean-based attack on the AJAX search form
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium6.1 | Reflected DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via 's' Parameter ≤5.5.18Update to 5.5.19 | CVE-2026-92243 | |
| Medium4.4 | Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'menu_title' and 'menu_magnifier_color' Settings ≤5.5.15Update to 5.5.16 | CVE-2026-11356 | |
| Medium6.1 | Reflected DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via url Parameter ≤5.5.8Update to 5.5.9 | CVE-2024-13362 | |
| Medium4.4 | Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'menu_gcse' and 'nothing_found_text' Parameters ≤5.5.13Update to 5.5.14 | CVE-2026-1053 | |
| Medium5.3 | Missing Authorization ≤5.5.12Update to 5.5.13 | CVE-2025-63069 |
- Medium6.1Reflected DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via 's' Parameter
≤5.5.18Update to 5.5.19
- Medium4.4Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'menu_title' and 'menu_magnifier_color' Settings
≤5.5.15Update to 5.5.16
- Medium6.1Reflected DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via url Parameter
≤5.5.8Update to 5.5.9
- Medium4.4Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'menu_gcse' and 'nothing_found_text' Parameters
≤5.5.13Update to 5.5.14
- Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤5.5.12Update to 5.5.13
Same weakness (Information Exposure)
All Information Exposure| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header | CVE-2026-120688 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission | CVE-2026-125055 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter | CVE-2026-121518 |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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- CVE® identifiers
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- 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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