WP Fast Total Search <= 1.78.258 — Missing Authorization
CVE-2025-24571Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.78.258Update to 1.79.262 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
WP Fast Total Search – The Power of Indexed Search fulltext-search
- Affected≤ 1.78.258
- Patched in1.79.262
Update to 1.79.262 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.78.258. Version 1.79.262 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WP Fast Total Search – The Power of Indexed Search.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.79.262, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch WP Fast Total Search – The Power of Indexed Search to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Kévin Mosbahi (Mika).
The WP Fast Total Search – The Power of Indexed Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 1.78.258. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
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|---|---|---|---|
| Medium5.3 | Missing Authorization ≤1.82.284Update to 1.83.286 | CVE-2026-84821 | |
| High7.5 | Unauthenticated SQL Injection ≤1.80.280Update to 1.81.282 | CVE-2026-12741 | |
| Medium5.3 | Missing Authorization ≤1.81.282Update to 1.81.284 | CVE-2026-27418 | |
| High7.5 | Unauthenticated SQL Injection ≤1.80.280Update to 1.81.282 | CVE-2026-57683 | |
| Medium4.3 | Cross-Site Request Forgery ≤1.79.270Update to 1.79.274 | CVE-2025-57893 |
- Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤1.82.284Update to 1.83.286
- High7.5Unauthenticated SQL Injection
≤1.80.280Update to 1.81.282
- Medium5.3Missing Authorization
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- High7.5Unauthenticated SQL Injection
≤1.80.280Update to 1.81.282
- Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤1.79.270Update to 1.79.274
Same weakness (Missing Authorization)
All Missing Authorization| 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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Chatterbug Forms – Fast, Flexible WordPress Form Builder
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ELEX WordPress HelpDesk & Customer Ticketing System
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- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
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
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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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- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.