What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-3214: Relevanssi – A Better Search <= 4.22.1 - Unauthenticated Second Order CSV Injection

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-04-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1236

Description

The Relevanssi – A Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CSV Injection in all versions up to, and including, 4.22.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to embed untrusted input into exported CSV files, which can result in code execution when these files are downloaded and opened on a local system with a vulnerable configuration.

Affected products

• Relevanssi: before 4.22.2 — fixed in 4.22.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Relevanssi 4.22.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3064304/relevanssi/tags/4.22.2/lib/log.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9960bae9-6f19-49eb-8f24-fdde4933671e?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3064304/relevanssi/tags/4.22.2/lib/log.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9960bae9-6f19-49eb-8f24-fdde4933671e?source=cve

Get alerted when CVE-2024-3214 or the next vulnerability affects your stack