Vulnerability · Published Oct 31, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

CVE-2026-116522Relevanssi <= 4.28.5 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content via Late Entity Decode

High 7.2

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A high-severity cross-site scripting in Relevanssi – A Better Search from comesio. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 16% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.2High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 84.0% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
comesio	Relevanssi – A Better Search	0 – through 4.28.5

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Affected products (as reported)

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