Authenticated Object Injection in Multisites in WordPress

CVE-2022-21663
6.6MEDIUM

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. On a multisite, users with Super Admin role can bypass explicit/additional hardening under certain conditions through object injection. 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

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.6
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Risk change from: 7.2 to: 6.6 - (MEDIUM)

  • Vulnerability published.

  • Vulnerability Reserved.

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database
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