Threat intelligence dashboard
CVE-2026-116522high

Relevanssi <= 4.28.5 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content via Late Entity Decode

The Relevanssi – A Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.28.5 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 requires the site to have both the comment indexing and comment highlighting options enabled, and the payload only fires when a visitor reaches a singular page via a Relevanssi search-result permalink carrying the highlight query parameter.

Risk score

7.2

CVSS 3.1

Vendor
comesio
Product
Relevanssi – A Better Search
CWE
CWE-79
Published
Oct 31, 2026
Updated
Oct 31, 2026
CISA KEV
Not flagged

Affected products and versions

Relevanssi – A Better Search

comesio

Version / rangeStatusType
0 to 4.28.5affectedsemver

Technical metrics

7.2

CVSS 3.1

Severity
high
Source
Wordfence
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N