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CVE-2024-3233: Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin <= 5.5.5 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Index Creation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

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.

Affected products

• vinod-dalvi Ivory Search: through 5.5.5

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3067568/add-search-to-menu/trunk/includes/class-is-index-manager.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cc9935d8-7790-457b-88bf-bee5e13b0f5a?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3067568/add-search-to-menu/trunk/includes/class-is-index-manager.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cc9935d8-7790-457b-88bf-bee5e13b0f5a?source=cve

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