There is not any flaw in the way you’ve defined the sidebar. This is not supposed to happen because WordPress provides search form field to the front by default. There must be some issue with the theme you are using or the WordPress version you are using right now.
What is the WordPress Version you’ve right now?
Or there must be some hook in your theme that is affecting to display it from the widget.
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