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Relevanssi – A Better Search <= 4.22.1 — Unauthenticated Second Order CSV Injection

CVE-2024-3214Published · Updated

Action summary

Relevanssi Premium: Affected: ≤2.25.1Update to 2.25.2 or newer

Relevanssi – A Better Search: Affected: ≤4.22.1Update to 4.22.2 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium5.8
CVSS
5.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-1236 Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Relevanssi Premium relevanssi-premium

  1. Affected≤ 2.25.1
  2. Patched in2.25.2

Update to 2.25.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.25.1. Version 2.25.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

Relevanssi – A Better Search relevanssi

  1. Affected≤ 4.22.1
  2. Patched in4.22.2

Update to 4.22.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 4.22.1. Version 4.22.2 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 Premium.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.25.2, or a newer patched version
  2. Update to version 4.22.2, or a newer patched version
  3. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  4. Watch Relevanssi Premium to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Thura Moe Myint (mgthuramoemyint).

The Relevanssi – A Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CSV Injection in all versions up to, and including, 4.22.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to embed untrusted input into exported CSV files, which can result in code execution when these files are downloaded and opened on a local system with a vulnerable configuration.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

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High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via '_rt' Parameter
≤2.31.4Update to 2.31.5
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Medium6.5Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection
≤2.30.2Update to 2.30.3
CVE-2026-15941
Medium6.5Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection
<2.29.0Update to 2.29.0
CVE-2025-14719
Medium4.7Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Excerpt Highlights
≤2.27.6Update to 2.27.7
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High7.5Unauthenticated SQL Injection
≤2.27.5Update to 2.27.6
CVE-2025-4396

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
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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