WordPress plugin · wp-advanced-search
Is WordPress WP-Advanced-Search safe?
Closed. Replace it.
wordpress.org closed it on Oct 10, 2025 (licensing/trademark violation), so it gets no more security fixes, and 5 flaws are on record. If your site runs it, move to a maintained alternative.
- Flaws on record
- 5
- High or critical
- 2
- Exploited
- none
Every recorded flaw
- Apr 16, 2025WP-Advanced-Search: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous TypeCVE-2025-39538 · affects up to 3.3.9.4 · reported by PatchstackMedium 6.6
- Mar 25, 2025WordPress WP-Advanced-Search: Does not sanitise and escape some of its settingsCVE-2024-10554 · fixed in 3.3.9.3 · reported by WPScanLow 3.5
- Oct 10, 2024WP-Advanced-Search: Does not sanitize and escape the t parameter before using it in a SQL statementCVE-2024-9796 · fixed in 3.3.9.2 · reported by WPScan3.0% oddsCritical 9.8
- May 24, 2023Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Mathieu Chartier WordPress WP-Advanced-Search plugin <= 3.3.8 versions.CVE-2022-47447 · affects up to 3.3.8 · reported by PatchstackMedium 4.3
- May 5, 2020Import feature in the wp-advanced-search plugin 3.3.6: Authenticated SQL injectionCVE-2020-12104 · fixed in 3.3.7 · reported by MITRE1.6% oddsHigh 8.8
Records come from the National Vulnerability Database, published by the researchers who found each flaw (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan and others); exploited status from CISA; exploit odds from FIRST’s EPSS; current version, installs and closures from wordpress.org, checked daily. Want every plugin on your site checked at once? Run the free website check.
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