CVE-2025-5016
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Relevanssi – A Better Search plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-5016) that affects all versions up to and including 4.24.5 (Free) and 2.27.6 (Premium). The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on May 31, 2025 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists in the Excerpt Highlights feature due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This security flaw has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.7 (MEDIUM) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This can lead to potential client-side attacks and compromise of user sessions (NVD).

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