CVE-2026-116522

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 74/100
Published: 2026-10-31 Modified: 2026-10-31 First seen: 2026-10-31 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction Scope Change

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: Changed
C: Low
I: Low
A: None

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 Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
comesio Relevanssi – A Better Search 0

Bug Bounty Relevance

74 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

7.2 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.25%
Raw Score 0.002470
Percentile 16.0%
Date 2026-10-31

Intelligence Sources

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