CVE-2025-5209
Ivory Search < 5.5.10 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
1Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
The Ivory Search WordPress plugin before 5.5.10 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed
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, 5.5.9 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.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:Track*
Timeline
- 2025-05-26 CVE Reserved
- 2025-05-27 CVE Published
- 2025-06-17 First Exploit
- 2025-07-09 CVE Updated
- 2025-08-24 EPSS Updated
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- ---------- KEV Due Date
CWE
- CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CAPEC
References (1)
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| https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8b51dc46-62c8-45b5-96ce-fb774b430388 | 2025-06-17 |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | ||||||
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| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | <-- --> | Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status |
| Unknown Search vendor "Unknown" | Ivory Search Search vendor "Unknown" for product "Ivory Search" | < 5.5.10 Search vendor "Unknown" for product "Ivory Search" and version " < 5.5.10" | en |
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