CVE-2025-4396

Description

The Relevanssi – A Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the cats and tags query parameters in all versions up to, and including, 4.24.4 (Free) and <= 2.27.4 (Premium) due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries to already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Reserved 2025-05-06 | Published 2025-05-13 | Updated 2025-05-13 | Assigner Wordfence

Problem types

CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Product status

Default status
unaffected

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affected

Default status
unaffected

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affected

Timeline

2025-05-03:	Discovered
2025-05-12:	Disclosed

Credits

Jack Taylor finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-4504-4caa-b729-c3293463cfb5?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/....24.4/lib/search-tax-query.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...ssi/tags/4.24.4/lib/search.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...ssi/tags/4.24.4/lib/search.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/....24.4/lib/search-tax-query.php

cve.org (CVE-2025-4396)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-4396)

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