CVE-2024-8619

Published May 15, 2025

Last updated 9 months ago

CVSS medium 4.8

Overview

Description: The Ajax Search Lite WordPress plugin before 4.12.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
Source: contact@wpscan.com
NVD status: Analyzed
Products: ajax_search

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Secondary
Base score: 4.8
Impact score: 2.7
Exploitability score: 1.7
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity: MEDIUM

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-79

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:wp-dreams:ajax_search:*:*:*:*:lite:wordpress:*:*",
            "matchCriteriaId": "8C7B9983-17F1-4D2C-A07D-2DECF9BD78FB",
            "versionEndExcluding": "4.12.3",
            "vulnerable": true
          }
        ],
        "negate": false,
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.