CVE-2025-4396
The Relevanssi – A Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the cats and tags query parameters in all versions up to, and including, 4.24.4 (Free) and <= 2.27.5 (Premium) due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries to already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Puntuación base: 7.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 2.67%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 85
- Fecha de la puntuación: 4/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK
Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.
- Explotación
T1190Exploit Public-Facing Applicationinitial access95 % - Impacto principal
T1005Data from Local Systemcollection90 % - Impacto secundario
T1565.001Stored Data Manipulationimpact75 %
SQL Injection sin autenticación en parámetro web de plugin WordPress accesible remotamente (AV:N/PR:N/UI:N); permite extracción de datos sensibles (C:H) y potencial manipulación de datos en base de datos.
Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.
🛡️ Mitigaciones ATT&CK que cubren estas técnicas
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
⚠ Inferidas por IA a partir de la descripción — NVD aún no ha analizado esta CVE; no son CPE verificados.
CWE
- CWE-89
Referencias
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.24.4/lib/search-tax-query.php#L371
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.24.4/lib/search-tax-query.php#L409
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.24.4/lib/search.php#L1016
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/relevanssi/tags/4.24.4/lib/search.php#L982
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/197be163-4504-4caa-b729-c3293463cfb5?source=cve
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