Ajax Search Lite < 3.11 - Remote Code Execution

9.8
Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2014-4663
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published June 24, 2014
Last Updated October 15, 2024
Researcher @u0x (Pichaya Morimoto)

Description

The Ajax Search Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in versions up to, and including, 3.10 via the TimThumb’s "Webshot" feature. This allows unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the server.

Wordfence blocked 457 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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Vulnerability Details for Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ajax-search-lite (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.11, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 3.11
Patched Version
  • 3.11

Recent vulnerabilities in Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Ajax Search Lite <= 4.13.3 - Authenticated (Administrator+) PHP Object Injection CVE-2025-48086 6.6 Valentinos Chouris October 21, 2025
2 Ajax Search Lite <= 4.13.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Basic Information Exposure via ASL_Query in AJAX Search Handler CVE-2025-7956 5.3 stealthcopter August 27, 2025
3 Ajax Search Lite <= 4.12.4 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-13585 4.4 Dmitrii Ignatyev January 31, 2025
4 Ajax Search Lite <= 4.12.3 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-10568 4.4 Dmitrii Ignatyev November 21, 2024
5 Ajax Search Lite <= 4.12.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-8619 4.4 Dmitrii Ignatyev August 2, 2024
6 Ajax Search Lite < 4.12 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-7084 5.5 Krugov Artyom July 16, 2024
7 Ajax Search Lite <= 4.11.4 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-21752 6.1 Le Ngoc Anh January 4, 2024
8 Ajax Search Lite <= 4.11 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2023-1420 7.2 Erwan LR April 3, 2023
9 Ajax Search Lite <= 4.10.3 - Missing Authorization leading to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Disclosure CVE-2022-38456 4.3 István Márton February 6, 2023
10 Ajax Search Lite < 3.11 - Missing Authorization to Remote Code Execution 8.8 Evex March 26, 2015

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