Ivory Search <= 5.5.18 — Reflected DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via 's' Parameter
CVE-2026-92243Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤5.5.18Update to 5.5.19 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.1
- CVSS
- 6.1CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- 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≤ 5.5.18
- Patched in5.5.19
Update to 5.5.19 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 5.5.18. Version 5.5.19 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 5.5.19, 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 @nacento.
The Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 's' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.18 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. Exploitation requires that the targeted search form has the 'Highlight Search Terms' option enabled by an administrator, and that the malicious search query returns at least one post result.
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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|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Medium4.4 | Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤5.5.9Update to 5.5.10 | CVE-2025-5209 |
- Medium4.4Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'menu_title' and 'menu_magnifier_color' Settings
≤5.5.15Update to 5.5.16
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- 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
- Medium4.4Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.5.9Update to 5.5.10
Same weakness (Cross-Site Scripting)
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|---|---|---|---|
| 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 6.1
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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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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