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Ajax Search Lite · Version history

Ajax Search Lite changelog and version history

Latest version
4.14.7
Oct 19, 2026 (21 days ago)
Releases
97
since 2014
In the last year
10
about one every 35 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20149 releases
  • 20158 releases
  • 20168 releases
  • 201712 releases
  • 20189 releases
  • 20196 releases
  • 20207 releases
  • 20215 releases
  • 20225 releases
  • 20235 releases
  • 20247 releases
  • 20257 releases
  • 20269 releases

20269 releases

  1. Ajax Search Lite 4.14.7Latest

    • 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

  2. Ajax Search Lite 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)

  3. Ajax Search Lite 4.14.5

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

  4. Ajax Search Lite 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

  5. Ajax Search Lite 4.14.3

    • Fix: Taxonomy term exclusions incorrectly excluded posts not assigned to the filtered category
    • Fix: Admin font (Inter) not loading due to misplaced @import; body font-family no longer overrides the WordPress admin globally

  6. Ajax Search Lite 4.14.2

    • New: Compatibility, Maintenance, and Help & Support settings submenus redesigned with a modern interface
    • New: Statistics page now includes area charts
    • New: Bulk delete option for recent search entries in the Statistics submenu
    • Improvement: Compatibility and Performance settings merged into a single submenu
    • Fix: Results pages are no longer limited to 50 items
    • Fix: A fatal error which was related to excluding hidden search/catalog WooCommerce products from the results

  7. Ajax Search Lite 4.14.1

    • Fix: Multiple potential TypeError exceptions on PHP 8+ (charcount, posts_per_page, search override filter, query args type coercion)
    • Fix: Undefined array key notice in search helper filters

  8. Ajax Search Lite 4.14.0

    • New: Search statistics — tracks searches, result counts, device types and cache hit rates via a new admin panel
    • New: Search results cache admin panel with real-time hit/miss chart and per-entry management (File, Database and Super File cache modes)
    • New: PSR-4 modern search layer (AbstractSearch, SearchQuery, SearchQueryArgs) as the foundation for future improvements
    • New: Detects when Ajax Search Pro is active and disables conflicting Lite features to prevent duplicate operation
    • Improvement: Shared code extracted into separate versioned repositories
    • Fix: Exact match prioritization for keyword suggestion auto-scroll (#94)
    • Fix: Possible undefined $_sdata variable warning (#95)

  9. Ajax Search Lite 4.13.5

    • Added an option to control visibility for WPML non-translated content (display on main language, on all or off)
    • Greatly improved the image parser by allowing additional data attributes and divs with these data attributes as a potential image source
    • Fixed a deprecation warning in PHP 8.0+
    • Fixed an issue for a potential conflict where a null value could be returned in the get_posts hook
    • Fixed and issue with the WooCommerce advanced field handler

20257 releases

  1. Ajax Search Lite 4.13.4

    • Added an option to limit the result title length (default 999 characters)
    • Fixed a potential security issue, see CVE-2025-48086

  2. Ajax Search Lite 4.13.3

    • Fixed a type coercion issue which caused the auto complete to be enabled at all times even when it was turned off
    • Fixed an issue with WooCommerce related advanced fields, where it would cause an error when WooCommerce is not enabled but a product post type is used
    • Fixed an issue with WooCommerce catalog/hidden product exclusions, which caused an error in very rare cases due to an unspecified taxonomy argument

  3. Ajax Search Lite 4.13.2

    • Fixed a security issue, where password protected posts were returned by default, see CVE-2025-7956
    • A full scale code review was performed, implementing additional sanitization and escaping of all output based on WP Codesniffs and recommendations
    • Removed a lot of unused code and some unused files
    • Fixed an issue with the results page live loader, where in some cases it was not working
    • Fixed an issue with the thumbnail generator where in some cases a notice was generated
    • Fixed an issue with the facet change trigger settings

  4. Ajax Search Lite 4.13.1

    • Quickfix on 4.13 advanced title and field types, where a bug caused an error 500 in some cases

  5. Ajax Search Lite 4.13

    • Added advanced title and content fields visual editor
    • WooCommerce Add To cart button is now available as content field
    • WooCommerce Price field is now available as content field
    • Keyword highligher scrolling now prioritizes exact matches
    • Fixed an issue where Polylang strings were not properly registered
    • Fixed an issue with Google Analytics integration
    • Fixed an issue with Divi Pop-ups, now the floating results window closes when pop-up is closed
    • Front-end scripts sources have been refactored to TypeScript for more stability

  6. Ajax Search Lite 4.12.7

    • Fixed an issue when the plugin textdomain was registered too early
    • Fixed an issue with sorting parameters on the results page

  7. Ajax Search Lite 4.12.6

    • Fixed an issue with the advanced title and content fields where HTML was not properly processed and validated
    • Plugin is now compatible with Search Exclude plugin exclusions

20247 releases

  1. Ajax Search Lite 4.12.5

    • Further security improvements on the form inputs and labels
    • Changed some back-end labels for more clarity

  2. Ajax Search Lite 4.12.4

    • Removed some unused code
    • Greatly improved security for the back-end UI against potential XSS attacks

  3. Ajax Search Lite 4.12.3

    • Added the missing Menu ordering ASC/DESC for the secondary ordering as well
    • Corrected the previous fix for the low rist XSS issue

  4. Ajax Search Lite 4.12.2

    • Fixed a possible XSS security issue – reported by Dmitrii Ignatyev from cleantalk

  5. Ajax Search Lite 4.12.1

    • Fixed a dependency issue with the old widgets screen and the search bocks
    • Fixed the widget title output, so when it’s empty, it no longer outputs the widget title
    • Fixed a potential XSS vulnerability for the back-end options interface

  6. Ajax Search Lite 4.12

    • Added support for Block Editor – the Ajax Search Lite block should be available for Gutenberg
    • WPML String translations updates
    • PHP 8.3 compatibility fixes
    • Fixed an issue with the post_parent shortcode attribute
    • Fixed an issue with form width/flex with some themes

  7. Ajax Search Lite 4.11.5

    • Improved the results keyword highlighter – now does not need to use the local storage
    • Fixed a few PHP>8.2 deprecation issues
    • Removed some CSS files, which are no longer needed for the back-end
    • Fixed a potential CRSF & XSS issue identified by Le Ngoc Anh

20235 releases

  1. Ajax Search Lite 4.11.4

    • Fixed a layout issue with the magnifier icon

  2. Ajax Search Lite 4.11.3

    • New shortcode argument: post_parent=”1,2,3″ – where the search results can be restricted to the list of parent posts (or any other post type IDs). Ex: [wpdreams_ajaxsearchlite post_parent="1, 2, 3, 4"]
    • Added tabindexes (tabindex=0) to the filters for better navigation
    • Moved the magnifier button in the DOM to after the input field
    • Greatly improved the custom field search logic and performance
    • Changed the default texts in some ARIA labels
    • Using the {_sale_price} pseudo variable in advanced title and content fields will check if the item is on sale
    • Changed the button inner div tag to a span for validation

  3. Ajax Search Lite 4.11.2

  4. Ajax Search Lite 4.11.1

  5. Ajax Search Lite 4.11

20225 releases

  1. Ajax Search Lite 4.10.3

  2. Ajax Search Lite 4.10.2

  3. Ajax Search Lite 4.10.1

  4. Ajax Search Lite 4.10

  5. Ajax Search Lite 4.9.5

20215 releases

  1. Ajax Search Lite 4.9.4

  2. Ajax Search Lite 4.9.3

  3. Ajax Search Lite 4.9.2

  4. Ajax Search Lite 4.9.1

  5. Ajax Search Lite 4.9

20207 releases

  1. Ajax Search Lite 4.8.6

  2. Ajax Search Lite 4.8.5

  3. Ajax Search Lite 4.8.4

  4. Ajax Search Lite 4.8.3

  5. Ajax Search Lite 4.8.1

  6. Ajax Search Lite 4.8.2

  7. Ajax Search Lite 4.8

20196 releases

  1. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.26

  2. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.25

  3. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.24

  4. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.23

  5. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.22

  6. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.21

20189 releases

  1. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.20

  2. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.19

  3. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.18

  4. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.17

  5. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.16

  6. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.15

  7. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.14

  8. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.13

  9. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.12

201712 releases

  1. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.11

  2. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.10

  3. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.9

  4. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.8

  5. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.7

  6. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.6

  7. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.5

  8. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.4

  9. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.3

  10. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.2

  11. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.1

  12. Ajax Search Lite 4.7.0

20168 releases

  1. Ajax Search Lite 4.6.6

  2. Ajax Search Lite 4.6.2

  3. Ajax Search Lite 4.6.5

  4. Ajax Search Lite 4.6.4

  5. Ajax Search Lite 4.6.3

  6. Ajax Search Lite 4.6.1

  7. Ajax Search Lite 4.6.0

  8. Ajax Search Lite 4.5.5

20158 releases

  1. Ajax Search Lite 4.5.4

  2. Ajax Search Lite 4.5.1

  3. Ajax Search Lite 4.5

  4. Ajax Search Lite 4.0

  5. Ajax Search Lite 3.5

  6. Ajax Search Lite 3.11

  7. Ajax Search Lite 3.10

  8. Ajax Search Lite 3.06

20149 releases

  1. Ajax Search Lite 3.05

  2. Ajax Search Lite 3.0

  3. Ajax Search Lite 1.7

  4. Ajax Search Lite 1.6

  5. Ajax Search Lite 1.5

  6. Ajax Search Lite 1.4

  7. Ajax Search Lite 1.3

  8. Ajax Search Lite 1.2

  9. Ajax Search Lite 1.1

Questions about Ajax Search Lite’s releases

What is the latest version of Ajax Search Lite?

4.14.7, released on Oct 19, 2026 (3 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Ajax Search Lite updated?

10 releases in the last year, about one every 35 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from January 2014.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Ajax Search Lite’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.