What is CVE-2012-5853?

CVE-2012-5853 is a vulnerability in Vinojcardoza Ajax Post Search, classified under SQL Injection. Published 2015-01-08.

Is CVE-2012-5853 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

SQL Injection in Vinojcardoza Ajax Post Search

CVE-2012-5853

SQL injection vulnerability in the "the_search_function" function in cardoza_ajax_search.php in the AJAX Post Search (cardoza-ajax-search) plugin before 1.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the srch_txt parameter in a "the_search_text" action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

EPSS: 0.022 (81.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Vinojcardoza Ajax_post_search
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-5853?: CVE-2012-5853 is a vulnerability in Vinojcardoza Ajax Post Search, classified under SQL Injection. Published 2015-01-08.
Is CVE-2012-5853 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.