CVE-2023-1420: Wp-Dreams AJAX Search

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Ajax Search Lite WordPress plugin before 4.11.1, Ajax Search Pro WordPress plugin before 4.26.2 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in a response of an AJAX action, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

Affected products

• Wp-Dreams AJAX Search: before 4.11.1 (fixed in 4.11.1); before 4.26.2 (fixed in 4.26.2)

Published 2023-04-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.