🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-116522

HIGH 7.2

Relevanssi <= 4.28.5 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content via Late Entity Decode

CVSS Score
7.2
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Relevanssi – A Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.28.5 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. This requires the site to have both the comment indexing and comment highlighting options enabled, and the payload only fires when a visitor reaches a singular page via a Relevanssi search-result permalink carrying the highlight query parameter.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor comesio
Product relevanssi – a better search
Published Oct 31, 2026
Stay Ahead of the Next One

Get instant alerts for comesio relevanssi – a better search

Be the first to know when new high vulnerabilities affecting comesio relevanssi – a better search are published — delivered to Slack, Telegram or Discord.

Get Free Alerts → Free · No credit card · 60 sec setup

CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

comesio / Relevanssi – A Better Search
0 ≤ 4.28.5

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/442403ae-9011-4373-a363-e98e07ec7e9b?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.28.5/lib/excerpts-highlights.php#L521 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.28.5/lib/excerpts-highlights.php#L688 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.28.5/lib/excerpts-highlights.php#L1698 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.28.5/lib/init.php#L140 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.28.5/lib/common.php#L1037 github.com: https://github.com/msaari/relevanssi/commit/b0324957b27e2dfc2aa116c96dcf578fbec9e0e5 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3767703%40relevanssi%2Ftags%2F4.28.6&old=3761637%40relevanssi%2Ftags%2F4.28.5

Credits

daroo