CVE-2025-4396
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Relevanssi – A Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the cats and tags query parameters in versions up to and including 4.24.4 (Free) and <= 2.27.4 (Premium). The vulnerability was discovered on May 12, 2025 and assigned CVE-2025-4396 (NVD, Wiz).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as SQL Injection (CWE-89) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 7.5 HIGH (Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N). The issue exists due to insufficient escaping on user-supplied parameters and lack of sufficient preparation on existing SQL queries (NVD, Wiz).

Impact

This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive information from the database by appending malicious SQL queries to existing queries (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should update to a patched version when available. The vulnerability affects versions up to and including 4.24.4 (Free) and <= 2.27.4 (Premium) (NVD).

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