Stored XSS in WordPress
CVE-2022-21662

8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
WordPress-develop
Vendor
CVE Published:
6 January 2022

Summary

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MariaDB database. Low-privileged authenticated users (like author) in WordPress core are able to execute JavaScript/perform stored XSS attack, which can affect high-privileged users. 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 issue.

Affected Version(s)

wordpress-develop < 5.8.3

References

https://wordpress.org/news/2022/01/wordpress-5-8-3-securi...
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https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/a...
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https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5039
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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