CVE-2016-10949

FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10949 describes a critical SQL injection vulnerability with unsafe unserialization in Relevanssi Premium plugin versions prior to 1.14.6.1 for WordPress. This flaw carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a severe impact with potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While publicly available exploit code and active exploitation are not currently observed, and community discussion is minimal, the vulnerability's nature (CWE-89) warrants attention.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 1.14.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:relevanssi:relevanssi:::::premium:wordpress::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

2.8

Impact Score

5.9

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

1.58%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

72.9%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0158 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 14,855 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

advisories.dxw.com / advisories/sql-injection-and-unserialization-vulnerability-in-relevanssi-premium-could-allow-admins-to-execute-arbitrary-code-in-some-circumstances

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