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Relevanssi – A Better Search, CVE-2025-5016

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-5016

Published on
May 31, 2025
Research 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.
Affected versions
Min -, max 4.24.6.
Status
vulnerable