Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin <= 5.5.6 - Information Exposure via AJAX Search Form

Description

The Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.6 via the ajax_load_posts function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract text data from password-protected posts using the boolean-based attack on the AJAX search form

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.52% · top 55% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.

Weakness

• CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs

Affected products

• vinod-dalvi · Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin

  • affected ≤ 5.5.6

References (4)

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/013f7c26-8348-4c54-af61-473a720a5095?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/add-search-to-menu/tags/5.5.6/public/class-is-ajax.php#L45 (opens in a new tab)
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/add-search-to-menu/tags/5.5.6/public/partials/is-ajax-results.php#L57 (opens in a new tab)
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3145289/ (opens in a new tab)

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2024-6835](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2024-6835.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2024-6835)

Record last updated 8 Apr 2026, 16:32 UTC.