Answer in brief
CVE-2026-97641 records a High severity (CVSS 7.2) vulnerability in Relevanssi <= 4.28.3 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps comesio/Relevanssi – A Better Search (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 7.2. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps comesio/Relevanssi – A Better Search (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| comesio/Relevanssi – A Better Searchgeneric | >=0 <=4.28.3 | Not reported |
Published upstream
Oct 2, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 2, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Oct 2, 2026
The Relevanssi – A Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content in all versions up to, and including, 4.28.3 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 is only exploitable when the administrator has configured a non-empty value for the "Allowable tags in excerpts" setting, such as the default example value of <p><a><strong>, as the prefix-matching regex must have an allowable tag whose name is a prefix of the injected tag name.
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