Vulnerabilities and security researches foradvanced-woo-search advanced-woo-search

Jun 07, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-0251
Home page URL: Security reports for Advanced Woo Search
Application: Advanced Woo Search
Date: Jan 13, 2024
Research Description: The Advanced Woo Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the search parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.96 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link. This only affects sites when the Dynamic Content for Elementor plugin is also installed.
Affected versions: max 2.97.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2020-12070
Home page URL: Security reports for Advanced Woo Search
Application: Advanced Woo Search
Date: Apr 25, 2020
Research Description: The Advanced Woo Search plugin version through 1.99 for Wordpress suffers from a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in every ajax search request via the sql field to includes/class-aws-search.php.
Affected versions: max 1.70.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-2452
Home page URL: Security reports for Advanced Woo Search
Application: Advanced Woo Search
Date: Jun 09, 2023
Research Description: The Advanced Woo Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in versions up to, and including, 2.77 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.
Affected versions: max 2.78.
Status: vulnerable

Mar 26, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-2302
Home page URL: Security reports for Advanced Woo Search
Application: Advanced Woo Search
Date: Mar 26, 2025
Research Description: The Advanced Woo Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's aws_search_terms shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.28 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: max 3.29.
Status: vulnerable