The Relevanssi – A Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Excerpt Highlights in all versions up to, and including, 4.24.5 (Free) and 2.27.6 (Premium) due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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Description | The Relevanssi – A Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Excerpt Highlights in all versions up to, and including, 4.24.5 (Free) and 2.27.6 (Premium) due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. | |
Title | Relevanssi <= 4.24.5 (Free) and <= 2.27.6 (Premium) - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Excerpt Highlights | |
Weaknesses | CWE-79 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Published: 2025-05-31T03:26:42.241Z
Updated: 2025-06-02T15:50:21.107Z
Reserved: 2025-05-20T19:13:58.866Z
Link: CVE-2025-5016

Updated: 2025-06-02T15:18:54.016Z

Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-05-31T04:15:25.893
Modified: 2025-06-02T17:32:17.397
Link: CVE-2025-5016

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