CVE-2025-5016 (GCVE-0-2025-5016)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-31 03:26 – Updated: 2025-06-02 15:50
VLAI?
Title
Relevanssi <= 4.24.5 (Free) and <= 2.27.6 (Premium) - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Excerpt Highlights
Summary
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.
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Relevanssi Relevanssi – A Better Search (Pro) Affected: * , ≤ 2.27.6 (semver)
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Credits
Jack Taylor
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