diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 7b1282fc0..24f9c2eda 100755
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 2019-01-22 DariusIII
+	* Fix: Fix one more occurence of wrong data sent to search function
 	* Chg: Log errors in PostProcessAdditional class
 2019-01-21 DariusIII
 	* Chg: Further improve results returned by search
diff --git a/app/Http/Controllers/SearchController.php b/app/Http/Controllers/SearchController.php
index 9548b9933..ebb26f1b7 100644
--- a/app/Http/Controllers/SearchController.php
+++ b/app/Http/Controllers/SearchController.php
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ class SearchController extends BasePageController
                 config('nntmux.items_per_page'),
                 $orderBy,
                 -1,
-                $this->userdata['categoryexclusions'],
+                $this->userdata['categoryexclusions'] ?? [],
                 'advanced',
                 [$searchVars['searchadvcat'] === '' ? -1 : $searchVars['searchadvcat']]
             );