Sort SearchResult By Title
Sort SearchResult By Title has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2023; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 4.3, and the most serious one scores 4.3 out of 10.
The most common weakness is Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), behind 1 of the records (100%).
The one issue recorded for Sort SearchResult By Title has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.
All of these findings were reported by Skalucy. Sort SearchResult By Title is installed on roughly 200 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 6.9.7.
CVE-2023-45639Sort SearchResult By Title <= 10.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via settings_page
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Sort SearchResult By Title
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Emerson Maningo
One of the common problems in commercial sites powered by WordPress is the desire to sort search results by post title. For example, if you are selling songs online and using WordPress, you may need to sort songs from the best to the lowest ratings in the search results. The objective is that any visitor will end up listening the best songs first and will increase the chances of buying the music. Using PHP, average song ratings of the song post can be incorporated in the title for more user-friendly approach (potential music buyers) will know the song ratings. Using “WordPress Sort Searchresult by Title”, when someone do a search using wordpress search box, all those songs can be alphabetically listen in descending order (highest to lowest). Other applications include a dating site using wordpress. Say someone would need to search names, it is appropriate to give results alphabetically listed so that the search names can be located faster. Currently the existing WordPress search result algorithm will only sort post by date. This is only useful for blogging, complex applications of WordPress sometimes need search results to be sorted by post title. There are numerous applications that this plugin can be used including a online bookstore powered by WordPress. And this can be easily done bysorting of WordPress Search Result by Title plugin (to sort the book titles or by book review ratings). For inquiries, support and technical clarifications about this plugin, please visit the PHP developer website.
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