Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter

4.14.7

Fixed: Security issues, including an SQL injection through the search phrase reported by Patchstack CVE-2026-111852

Fixed: A search bar placed inside a link, such as a menu item, initializes again

4.14.6

Fixed: Security issues, including non-public post types being searchable by unauthenticated visitors CVE-2026-110360

Fixed: Hardened search filters, password-protected and private content, the results cache, statistics and multisite settings

Changed: Logged-in users get their own results cache entries (new option, on by default)

4.14.5

Fixed: A security issue, discovered by Jakub Herman, CVE-2026-16258

4.14.4

Fixed: the search block now uses the current Gutenberg block API (v3), resolving the WordPress 6.9 deprecation notice and rendering correctly inside the new iframe block editor

Fixed: optimized taxonomy filtering in search queries (EXISTS / NOT EXISTS instead of nested IN/NOT IN sub-queries) to prevent oversized queries being killed on some managed hosts

Fixed: a possible fatal error during plugin updates caused by a stale class reference held in memory

Fixed: prevented theme-bundled jscolor scripts from hijacking the admin colour pickers and resetting values after save

Fixed: the admin menu icon is now a crisp vector (SVG) instead of a blurry raster image

Changed: upgraded the back-end colour picker (spectrum) from v1.1.1 to v2.0.10, fixing a Safari white-swatch bug

4.14.3

Fix: Taxonomy term exclusions incorrectly excluded posts not assigne