diff --git a/includes/class-wc-install.php b/includes/class-wc-install.php
index 725fe1d47eb..0f8452fb16a 100644
--- a/includes/class-wc-install.php
+++ b/includes/class-wc-install.php
@@ -119,6 +119,10 @@ class WC_Install {
 		),
 		'3.5.2' => array(
 			'wc_update_352_drop_download_log_fk',
+		),
+		'3.5.3' => array(
+			'wc_update_353_db_version',
+			'wc_update_353_set_attrib_values_to_excerpt',
 		)
 	);
 
diff --git a/includes/wc-update-functions.php b/includes/wc-update-functions.php
index 37cd676168a..683a2baa113 100644
--- a/includes/wc-update-functions.php
+++ b/includes/wc-update-functions.php
@@ -1894,3 +1894,32 @@ function wc_update_352_drop_download_log_fk() {
 		$wpdb->query( "ALTER TABLE {$wpdb->prefix}wc_download_log DROP FOREIGN KEY fk_wc_download_log_permission_id" ); // phpcs:ignore WordPress.WP.PreparedSQL.NotPrepared
 	}
 }
+
+/**
+ * Update DB Version.
+ */
+function wc_update_353_db_version() {
+	WC_Install::update_db_version( '3.5.3' );
+}
+
+/*
+ * Add attribute values to post_excerpt to allow searching variations without JOINs for each attribute.
+ */
+function wc_update_353_set_attrib_values_to_excerpt() {
+	global $wpdb;
+
+	$variation_ids = $wpdb->get_results( "SELECT ID from {$wpdb->prefix}posts WHERE post_type='product_variation'", ARRAY_A );
+	foreach ( $variation_ids as $variation_id ) {
+		$variation_id = $variation_id['ID'];
+		$variation_product = wc_get_product( $variation_id );
+		$attribute_values  = wc_get_formatted_variation( $variation_product, true, false );
+		if ( '' !== $attribute_values ) {
+			$wpdb->query(
+				$wpdb->prepare(
+					"UPDATE {$wpdb->prefix}posts SET post_excerpt=%s WHERE ID=%d",
+					$attribute_values, $variation_id
+				)
+			);
+		}
+	}
+}