The hightlighter seems to have specific code to handle CommonTermsQuery but it does not work:
org.elasticsearch.search.fetch.FetchPhaseExecutionException: [cirrustestwiki_content_1438190225][0]: query[filtered(((all.plain:prefix | all:prefix^0.5) all_near_match:prefix)~1)->cache(_type:page)],from[0],size[20]: Fetch Failed [Failed to highlight field [title]] at org.elasticsearch.search.highlight.ExperimentalHighlighter.highlight(ExperimentalHighlighter.java:92) at org.elasticsearch.search.highlight.HighlightPhase.hitExecute(HighlightPhase.java:133) at org.elasticsearch.search.fetch.FetchPhase.execute(FetchPhase.java:194) at org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.executeFetchPhase(SearchService.java:516) at org.elasticsearch.search.action.SearchServiceTransportAction$17.call(SearchServiceTransportAction.java:452) at org.elasticsearch.search.action.SearchServiceTransportAction$17.call(SearchServiceTransportAction.java:449) at org.elasticsearch.search.action.SearchServiceTransportAction$23.run(SearchServiceTransportAction.java:559) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery cannot be cast to org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery at org.wikimedia.highlighter.experimental.lucene.QueryFlattener.flattenQuery(QueryFlattener.java:401) at org.wikimedia.highlighter.experimental.lucene.QueryFlattener.flatten(QueryFlattener.java:145) at org.wikimedia.highlighter.experimental.lucene.QueryFlattener.flattenQuery(QueryFlattener.java:214) at org.wikimedia.highlighter.experimental.lucene.QueryFlattener.flatten(QueryFlattener.java:123) at org.wikimedia.highlighter.experimental.lucene.QueryFlattener.flatten(QueryFlattener.java:103) at org.wikimedia.highlighter.experimental.lucene.hit.weight.BasicQueryWeigher.<init>(BasicQueryWeigher.java:46) at org.elasticsearch.search.highlight.ExperimentalHighlighter$HighlightExecutionContext.ensureWeigher(ExperimentalHighlighter.java:286) at org.elasticsearch.search.highlight.ExperimentalHighlighter$HighlightExecutionContext.highlight(ExperimentalHighlighter.java:177) at org.elasticsearch.search.highlight.ExperimentalHighlighter.highlight(ExperimentalHighlighter.java:86) ... 9 more