What is CVE-2025-5209?

CVE-2025-5209 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ivorysearch Ivory Search, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2025-06-17.

How severe is CVE-2025-5209?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

XSS in Ivorysearch Ivory Search

CVE-2025-5209

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

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2025-06-17 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (15.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 15th percentile — 15.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Ivorysearch Ivory Search
Ivory Search — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/8b51dc46-62c8-45b5-96ce-fb774b430388/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-5209?: CVE-2025-5209 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ivorysearch Ivory Search, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2025-06-17.
How severe is CVE-2025-5209?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.