CVE-2025-4054
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
07/05/2025
Last modified:
07/05/2025
Description
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 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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.10
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.24.3/lib/excerpts-highlights.php#L508
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.24.3/lib/excerpts-highlights.php#L683
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3283795/
- https://www.relevanssi.com/user-manual/installing-relevanssi-and-adjusting-the-settings/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f77f10b-f142-4859-a941-0fbde6ef7fdb?source=cve