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CVE-2025-14298: FiboSearch – Ajax Search for WooCommerce <= 1.32.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via thegem_te_search Shortcode

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: 2025-12-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The FiboSearch – Ajax Search for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's `thegem_te_search` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.32.0 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. This vulnerability requires TheGem theme (premium) to be installed with Header Builder mode enabled, and the FiboSearch "Replace search bars" option enabled for TheGem integration.

Affected products

• damian-gora FiboSearch – Ajax Search for WooCommerce: through 1.32.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ajax-search-for-woocommerce/tags/1.32.0/partials/themes/thegem-elementor.php#L104
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ajax-search-for-woocommerce/tags/1.32.0/partials/themes/thegem-elementor.php#L94
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3420841%40ajax-search-for-woocommerce%2Ftrunk&old=3398612%40ajax-search-for-woocommerce%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file136
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-search-for-woocommerce
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8149103e-105d-401d-8a15-b07d131baaac?source=cve

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