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CVE-2026-97641

HIGH 7.2

Relevanssi <= 4.28.3 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content

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 Comment Content in all versions up to, and including, 4.28.3 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. This is only exploitable when the administrator has configured a non-empty value for the "Allowable tags in excerpts" setting, such as the default example value of &lt;p&gt;&lt;a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;, as the prefix-matching regex must have an allowable tag whose name is a prefix of the injected tag name.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor comesio
Product relevanssi – a better search
Published Oct 2, 2026
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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 ≤ 4.28.3

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/47751ff1-2f22-4335-8e75-7ff1b6214426?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.28.3/lib/excerpts-highlights.php#L883 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.28.3/lib/excerpts-highlights.php#L421 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.28.3/lib/excerpts-highlights.php#L216 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.28.3/lib/admin-ajax.php#L492 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.28.3/lib/indexing.php#L1067 github.com: https://github.com/msaari/relevanssi/commit/3dddec3416fbda298e18649127f31557398d10b0

Credits

Yuto Hyakumoto