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Description

The Ricerca – advanced search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via plugin's settings in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.12 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-02-19 | Published 2026-03-21 | Updated 2026-04-08 | Assigner Wordfence




MEDIUM: 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version
affected

Timeline

2026-01-21:Discovered
2026-03-20:Disclosed

Credits

Muhammad Nur Ibnu Hubab finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-5b57-4af1-a427-3247882952e9?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...gs/1.1.12/inc/admin_fields.php

cve.org (CVE-2026-2837)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-2837)

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