Better Search Vulnerabilities

The Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 4.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that wi...

CVSS:

6.4

Affected:

up to 4.2.1

Fixed in:

4.2.2

Disclosed:

Nov 22, 2025

CVE-2026-24938 on NVD →

The Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 4.1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the better search form. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitra...

CVSS:

6.4

Affected:

up to 4.1.0

Fixed in:

4.1.1

Disclosed:

May 7, 2025

CVE-2025-47507 on NVD →

The Better Search – Relevant search results for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via an unknown parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbi...

CVSS:

7.2

Affected:

up to 3.3.0

Fixed in:

3.3.1

Disclosed:

Mar 18, 2024

CVE-2024-29142 on NVD →

The Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 3.1.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the bsearch_ajax_clearcache function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to clear the plugin's cache via a forged request...

CVSS:

4.3

Affected:

up to 3.1.0

Fixed in:

3.2.0

Disclosed:

Apr 10, 2023

The Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.5.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to import settings via forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

CVSS:

8.8

Affected:

up to 2.5.3

Fixed in:

2.5.3

Disclosed:

Mar 1, 2021

CVE-2021-4373 on NVD →

The Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.5.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the bsearch_process_settings_import() and bsearch_process_settings_export() functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers...

CVSS:

4.3

Affected:

up to 2.5.2

Fixed in:

2.5.3

Disclosed:

Mar 1, 2021

CVE-2021-4400 on NVD →

The Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via an unknown parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.2.3 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append...

CVSS:

9.3

Affected:

up to 2.2.3

Fixed in:

2.2.3

Disclosed:

Mar 15, 2019

The Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the search field in versions up to, and including, 1.3.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if th...

CVSS:

6.1

Affected:

up to 1.3.4

Fixed in:

1.3.5

Disclosed:

Dec 16, 2014