SQL injection in WordPress
CVE-2022-21664

7.4HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
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. Due to lack of proper sanitization in one of the classes, there's potential for unintended SQL queries to be executed. This has been patched in WordPress version 5.8.3. Older affected versions are also fixed via security release, that go back till 4.1.34. We strongly recommend that you keep auto-updates enabled. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Affected Version(s)

wordpress-develop >= 4.1.33, < 5.8.3

References

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.4
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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