Relevanssi – A Better Search, CVE-2026-15941
- CVE, Research URL
- Home page URL
- Application
- Published on
- Aug 05, 2026
- Research Description
- The plugin provides an Admin Search page that allows users with the `edit_posts` capability to run Relevanssi searches from the WordPress dashboard. The AJAX handler accepts a URL-encoded `args` parameter, parses it into a `WP_Query`, and then passes user-controlled taxonomy query data into Relevanssi's taxonomy restriction builder. The taxonomy value is sanitized as text but is not parameterized for SQL before being interpolated into a term taxonomy lookup query. This allows an authenticated contributor-level attacker to inject SQL through the Admin Search AJAX request and execute time-based blind SQL injection against the WordPress database.
- Affected versions
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max 4.27.2.
- Status
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vulnerable