# CVE-2025-5209: Ivory Search < 5.5.10 - Admin+ Stored XSS

> Admin users can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized settings in Ivory Search, enabling stored XSS attacks.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 17 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 17 Jun 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5j6c-8mh7-5662

## What is CVE-2025-5209?

CVE-2025-5209 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Ivory Search, published on 17 Jun 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

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

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-5209?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ivorysearch Ivory Search.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-5209?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-5209 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-5209 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-5209 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Ivory Search

- [CVE-2021-24234](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24234/): Ivory Search < 4.6.1 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2024-6835](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6835/): Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin <= 5.5.6 - Information Exposure via AJAX Search Form (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2021-25105](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-25105/): Ivory Search < 5.4.1 - Multiple Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting (medium 4.8)
- [CVE-2021-36869](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-36869/): WordPress Ivory Search plugin <= 4.6.6 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 4.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-5209 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-5209 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Ivory Search, published on 17 Jun 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-5209 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Ivory Search. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5209/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5209/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5209
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5209
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-5209

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5209/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.