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Relevanssi <= 3.6.0 — Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection

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Action summary

Affected: <3.6.1Update to 3.6.1 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
High8.7
CVSS
8.7
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:H Privileges required
High
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-89 SQL Injection
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Relevanssi – A Better Search relevanssi

  1. Affected< 3.6.1
  2. Patched in3.6.1

Update to 3.6.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 3.6.1. Version 3.6.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Relevanssi – A Better Search.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 3.6.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Relevanssi – A Better Search to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to dwxsupport.

The Relevanssi plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the ‘relevanssi_weight_’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 3.6.0 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrative privileges to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Relevanssi – A Better Search

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High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content via Late Entity Decode
≤4.28.5Update to 4.28.6
CVE-2026-116522
Medium6.6Authenticated (Editor+) PHP Object Injection
≤4.28.4Update to 4.28.5
CVE-2026-114704
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content
≤4.28.3Update to 4.28.4
CVE-2026-97641
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤4.28.1Update to 4.28.2
CVE-2026-19985
Medium6.5Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection
≤2.30.2Update to 2.30.3
CVE-2026-15941

Same weakness (SQL Injection)

All SQL Injection
Other SQL Injection vulnerabilities
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent HeaderCVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form SubmissionCVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' ParameterCVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.7

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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