GHSA-q96m-48w3-jqmxMediumCVSS 6.5
The plugin provides an Admin Search page that allows users with the `edit_posts` capability to...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
The plugin provides an Admin Search page that allows users with the edit_posts capability to run Relevanssi searches from the WordPress dashboard. The AJAX handler accepts a URL-encoded args parameter, parses it into a WP_Query, and then passes user-controlled taxonomy query data into Relevanssi's taxonomy restriction builder. The taxonomy value is sanitized as text but is not parameterized for SQL before being interpolated into a term taxonomy lookup query. This allows an authenticated contributor-level attacker to inject SQL through the Admin Search AJAX request and execute time-based blind SQL injection against the WordPress database.
🔗 References (6)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-15941
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.27.1/lib/admin-ajax.php#L195
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.27.1/lib/search-tax-query.php#L411
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.27.1/lib/search.php#L969
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4f96b87a-1405-4cf6-b903-ad0c7c8e2826?source=cve
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q96m-48w3-jqmx