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Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin, CVE-2026-1053

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2026-1053

Published on
Jan 28, 2026
Research Description
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, 5.5.13 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 5.5.14.
Status
vulnerable