CVE-2025-5016: Relevanssi <= 4.24.5 (Free) and <= 2.27.6 (Premium) - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Excerpt Highlights
Description
The Relevanssi – A Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Excerpt Highlights in all versions up to, and including, 4.24.5 (Free) and 2.27.6 (Premium) 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.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2025-5016
CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS Base Score: 4.7
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Problem Types
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Affected Products
Vendor: Relevanssi, msaari
Product: Relevanssi – A Better Search (Pro), Relevanssi – A Better Search
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.06% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 17.32% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-06-03 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5016https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ffb2ade3-d5ce-4459-ab83-e28cd4c84922?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.24.5/lib/excerpts-highlights.php#L418