CVE-2026-16258

critical · 9.8

The Ajax Search Lite WordPress plugin before 4.14.5 does not prevent the deserialization of untrusted input, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform PHP Object Injection. When a suitable POP chain is present via another installed Ajax Search Lite WordPress plugin before 4.14.5 or , this can be leveraged to achieve Remote Code Execution.

9.8

CVSS

0.5%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

40th

EPSS percentile

2026-08-07

Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-502

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8487a2ce-cb4d-46b8-942e-334ac94cf115/

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2026-16258