CVE-2022-21662

2022-01-0623:15:08

Google

osv.dev

wordpress

xss

vulnerability

patch

5.8.3

mariadb

database

php

security

release

auto-updates

authenticated users

AI Score

5.9

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.004

Percentile

72.5%

JSON

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.