Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin <= 5.5.6 - Information Exposure via AJAX Search Form

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2024-6835
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published September 4, 2024
Last Updated September 5, 2024
Researcher stealthcopter
Description

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

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug add-search-to-menu (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.5.6
Patched Version
  • 5.5.7
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