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Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin <= 5.5.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Index Creation

Published May 2, 2024

Description

The Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the ajax_create_index() function in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to trigger index creation.

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Remediation

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References (3)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Wordfence
Published May 2, 2024
Updated Apr 8, 2026
Reserved Apr 2, 2024
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated May 15, 2024
NVD
Status Deferred
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner Wordfence
Published May 2, 2024
Updated Apr 8, 2026
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2024-31825