CVE-2022-21662 Stored XSS in WordPress

2022-01-0623:05:10

CWE-79

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

8.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.004 Low

EPSS

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.

CNA Affected

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