CVE-2024-12819: Searchie <= 1.17.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-01-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Searchie plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'sio_embed_media' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.17.0 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 products

Searchie: through 1.17.0

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/searchie/trunk/SIO/Shortcodes/WidgetsEmbed.php
https://wordpress.org/plugins/searchie/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8abed8c7-0c3f-4054-a116-82ce47d605de?source=cve

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