CVE-2025-4396
Relevanssi <= 4.24.4 (Free) and <= 2.27.5 (Premium) - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Relevanssi – A Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the cats and tags query parameters in all versions up to, and including, 4.24.4 (Free) and <= 2.27.5 (Premium) due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries to already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
Relevanssi · Relevanssi Premium
- affected ≤ 2.27.5
comesio · Relevanssi – A Better Search
- affected ≤ 4.24.4
References (5)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/197be163-4504-4caa-b729-c3293463cfb5?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.24.4/lib/search-tax-query.php#L409 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.24.4/lib/search.php#L982 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.24.4/lib/search.php#L1016 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.24.4/lib/search-tax-query.php#L371 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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