Relevanssi <= 4.27.1 and Relevanssi Premium <= 2.30.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.5epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 84% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The plugin provides an Admin Search page that allows users with the `edit_posts` capability to run Relevanssi searches from the WordPress dashboard. The AJAX handler accepts a URL-encoded `args` parameter, parses it into a `WP_Query`, and then passes user-controlled taxonomy query data into Relevanssi's taxonomy restriction builder. The taxonomy value is sanitized as text but is not parameterized for SQL before being interpolated into a term taxonomy lookup query. This allows an authenticated contributor-level attacker to inject SQL through the Admin Search AJAX request and execute time-based blind SQL injection against the WordPress database.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
comesio · Relevanssi – A Better SearchRelevanssi · Relevanssi Premium – A Better SearchReferences
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.27.1/lib/admin-ajax.php#L195https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.27.1/lib/search.php#L969https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.27.1/lib/search-tax-query.php#L411https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4f96b87a-1405-4cf6-b903-ad0c7c8e2826?source=cve