Relevanssi <= 4.24.4 (Free) and <= 2.27.5 (Premium) - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- SQL injection
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-89.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-4396
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-g6vf-vqr8-r8hg
References
Other 5
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/197be163-4504-4caa-b729-c3293463cfb5?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.24.4/lib/search-tax-query.php#L409
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.24.4/lib/search.php#L982
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.24.4/lib/search.php#L1016
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.24.4/lib/search-tax-query.php#L371
More comesio vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-06585 Relevanssi (Free < 4.22.0, Premium < 2.25.0) - Unauthenticated Private/Draft Post Disclosure CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2024-01287 Missing authorization in comesio Relevanssi Premium CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2024-08374 Relevanssi < 4.23.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2024-03012 Relevanssi – A Better Search <= 4.22.1 - Unauthenticated Second Order CSV Injection CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-03011 Relevanssi – A Better Search <= 4.22.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Count Option Update CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
- TI-2016-08987 The Relevanssi Premium plugin before 1.14.6.1 for WordPress has SQL injection with resultant unsafe unserialization. CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
Sources
- CVE-2025-4396 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-4396 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-g6vf-vqr8-r8hg · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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