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CVE-2022-21662

CVE information

Published

2 years ago

Last Modified

5 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Low

CVSSv3.1 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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Description

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Low
Base Score
3.5/10
Exploit Score
6.8/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
Single
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
Partial

CVSSv3.1 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
5.4/10
Exploit Score
2.3/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
Impact Score
2.7/10
Confidentiality Impact
Low
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
Low
Scope
Changed
User Interaction
Required

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- 5.8.3
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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