CVE-2022-21663 Authenticated Object Injection in Multisites in WordPress

2022-01-0623:00:11

CWE-74

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

6.6 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

8.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

74.6%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "wordpress-develop",
    "vendor": "WordPress",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "< 5.8.3"
      }
    ]
  }
]