CVE-2024-3213: Relevanssi

High severity, CVSS 8.2. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Relevanssi – A Better Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the relevanssi_update_counts() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.22.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute expensive queries on the application that could lead into DOS.

Affected products

• Relevanssi Relevanssi: before 4.22.2 (fixed in 4.22.2)

Published 2024-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.