CVE-2012-5853

HIGH 7.5CVE-2012-5853 · Published 08/01/2015 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-5853 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting ajax post search (vinojcardoza).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.2%, higher than 83.0% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.3 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ajax post search vinojcardoza	`< 1.3`	`1.3`

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in the "the_search_function" function in cardoza_ajax_search.php in the AJAX Post Search (cardoza-ajax-search) plugin before 1.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the srch_txt parameter in a "the_search_text" action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

References

seclists.org/bugtraq/2012/Nov/33 · Exploit
wordpress.org/plugins/cardoza-ajax-search/changelog · Third Party Advisory

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