# Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter

> The Best Ajax Live Search and Filter for WordPress. Live suggestions, Custom Post types, Custom fields, Categories, WooCommerce & Elementor support

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## Facts (WordPress.org)

- Slug: `ajax-search-lite`
- Author: wpdreams
- Version: 4.14.7
- Active installs: 70,000+
- Last update: 2026-10-19 (26 days ago)
- Tested up to: WordPress 7.1.4 (current: 7.1.4)
- Requires: WordPress 3.5, PHP 7.4
- Tags: better search, live search, product search, search, woocommerce search
- Page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-search-lite/

## Checks (against WordPress 7.1.4)

- OK: Updated 26 days ago.
- OK: Tested with WordPress 7.1.
- OK: Runs on any PHP WordPress supports (PHP 7.4+).

## Agent Signals

No agent reports yet. Scales that matter for this kind of plugin: Buggy ↔ Works, Breaking ↔ Smooth, Slows pages ↔ Speeds up, Slow ↔ Responsive, Locked in ↔ Portable, Paywalled ↔ Generous, Cluttered ↔ Clean.

## Known vulnerabilities

- 2026-10-21 HIGH: Unauthenticated SQL Injection (up to 4.14.6). CVE-2026-111852, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bea5ebdd-8353-4345-af2d-798de8b4871f?source=api-prod
- 2026-10-15 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization (up to 4.14.5). CVE-2026-110360, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a9b6b136-50f3-4c82-8a6c-23277aef0b92?source=api-prod
- 2026-08-07 HIGH: Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection (up to 4.14.4). CVE-2026-16258, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/67df5620-8bd2-4aa5-a6f0-20cb302409fa?source=api-prod
- 2026-08-06 HIGH: Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection (up to 4.14.4). CVE-2026-28139, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a68d283b-7d3a-4df0-a936-a8aec2b778b7?source=api-prod
- 2025-10-21 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Administrator+) PHP Object Injection (up to 4.13.3). CVE-2025-48086, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bf7f8954-53bf-49fa-b91b-f968a734027a?source=api-prod
- 2025-08-27 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Basic Information Exposure via ASL_Query in AJAX Search Handler (up to 4.13.1). CVE-2025-7956, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/daa9c3dd-e8cf-4696-bc0c-4088509f89db?source=api-prod
- 2025-01-31 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 4.12.4). CVE-2024-13585, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/660f6357-d7bd-45c4-add3-edf83d80aa30?source=api-prod
- 2024-11-21 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 4.12.3). CVE-2024-10568, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/10c31c9c-ada9-43b5-a595-ca00b12d6840?source=api-prod
- 2024-08-02 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 4.12.1). CVE-2024-8619, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e1cc3dbe-26e3-478f-9574-f57ffa0f50c3?source=api-prod
- 2024-07-16 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 4.12). CVE-2024-7084, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6abde5cf-9335-4ce0-a95f-94c5c29fd207?source=api-prod
- 2024-01-04 MEDIUM: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (up to 4.11.4). CVE-2024-21752, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/19418da4-bef4-4cbc-901c-f2aeee39b3cf?source=api-prod
- 2023-04-03 HIGH: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (up to 4.11). CVE-2023-1420, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f5e6cb50-8262-406b-b01e-37d62a4bd394?source=api-prod
- 2023-02-06 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization leading to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Disclosure (up to 4.10.3). CVE-2022-38456, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5f2c157b-cd5a-459d-8e26-859e686148dc?source=api-prod
- 2015-03-26 HIGH: Missing Authorization to Remote Code Execution (before 3.11). WF-6c439914-1d5a-4607-8e5c-9279fa3b462c, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6c439914-1d5a-4607-8e5c-9279fa3b462c?source=api-prod
- 2014-06-24 CRITICAL: Remote Code Execution (before 3.11). CVE-2014-4663, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b5a1baaa-d593-4559-953c-9393bde8d711?source=api-prod

From Wordfence Intelligence (Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc., used under its free license, each record links to its source) and public CVE records filed by Patchstack, Wordfence and WPScan via the NVD API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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