CVE-2025-4054 (GCVE-0-2025-4054)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-07 02:23 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:59
VLAI?
Title
Relevanssi <= 4.24.3 (Free) and <= 2.27.4 (Premium) - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Search Highlights
Summary
The Relevanssi – A Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the highlights functionality in all versions up to, and including, 4.24.3 (Free) and <= 2.27.4 (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 via the search results.
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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| Relevanssi | Relevanssi Premium |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 2.27.4
(semver)
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Credits
Jack Taylor
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
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- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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