CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-21661

7.5 HIGH Published 2022-01-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2022-01-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-89

Description

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MariaDB database. Due to improper sanitization in WP_Query, there can be cases where SQL injection is possible through plugins or themes that use it in a certain way. This has been patched in WordPress version 5.8.3. Older affected versions are also fixed via security release, that go back till 3.7.37. We strongly recommend that you keep auto-updates enabled. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• wordpress wordpress (>= 3.7 < 3.7.37) • wordpress wordpress (>= 3.8 < 3.8.37) • wordpress wordpress (>= 3.9 < 3.9.35) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.0 < 4.0.34) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.1 < 4.1.34) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.2 < 4.2.31) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.3 < 4.3.27) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.4 < 4.4.26) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.5 < 4.5.25) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.6 < 4.6.22) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.7 < 4.7.22) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.8 < 4.8.18) • wordpress wordpress (>= 4.9 < 4.9.19) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.0 < 5.0.15) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.1 < 5.1.12) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.2 < 5.2.14) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.3 < 5.3.11) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.4 < 5.4.9) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.5 < 5.5.8) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.6 < 5.6.7) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.7 < 5.7.5) • wordpress wordpress (>= 5.8 < 5.8.3) • fedoraproject fedora 34 • fedoraproject fedora 35 • debian debian linux 9.0 • debian debian linux 10.0 • debian debian linux 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command weakness

References