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Ivory Search <= 5.5.13 — Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'menu_gcse' and 'nothing_found_text' Parameters

CVE-2026-1053Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤5.5.13Update to 5.5.14 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium4.4
CVSS
4.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:H Attack complexity
High
PR:H Privileges required
High
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin add-search-to-menu

  1. Affected≤ 5.5.13
  2. Patched in5.5.14

Update to 5.5.14 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 5.5.13. Version 5.5.14 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.

What to do

  1. Update to version 5.5.14, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to JongHwan Shin (zzzsleep).

The Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.13 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin

All 16
More vulnerabilities in Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.1Reflected DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via 's' Parameter
≤5.5.18Update to 5.5.19
CVE-2026-92243
Medium4.4Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'menu_title' and 'menu_magnifier_color' Settings
≤5.5.15Update to 5.5.16
CVE-2026-11356
Medium6.1Reflected DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via url Parameter
≤5.5.8Update to 5.5.9
CVE-2024-13362
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤5.5.12Update to 5.5.13
CVE-2025-63069
Medium4.4Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.5.9Update to 5.5.10
CVE-2025-5209

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Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.4

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. 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.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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