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Vulnerability · CVE-2025-5209

The Ivory Search WordPress plugin before 5.5.10 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Script

Published Jun 17, 2025 · catalog updated Jun 17, 2025 · Unknown Ivory Search

Check if you run it

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-5209. EPSS is 0.26%. Act only if a listed version of Unknown Ivory Search is installed.

Gaps on this record

  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
Severity
Medium4.8
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.26%
Remediation
Version ranges on file
Affected products
vendor Unknown Ivory Search 0 <5.5.10

The Ivory Search WordPress plugin before 5.5.10 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • vendor Unknown Ivory Search 0 <5.5.100 <5.5.10

How to fix CVE-2025-5209

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-5209. EPSS is 0.26%. Act only if a listed version of Unknown Ivory Search is installed.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with Unknown Ivory Search 0 <5.5.10 0 <5.5.10. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.26%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Technology hubs

WordPress security

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Jun 17, 2025 · EUVD

    Detected

    The Ivory Search WordPress plugin before 5.5.10 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

  2. Jun 17, 2025 · EUVD

    Updated

    The Ivory Search WordPress plugin before 5.5.10 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-5209

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-5209

    30-day exploitation probability 0.26%

    first.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-18481

    The Ivory Search WordPress plugin before 5.5.10 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 23, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.