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CVE-2022-21663

CVE information

Published

2 years ago

Last Modified

5 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

CVSSv3.1 Severity

High

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. 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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
6.5/10
Exploit Score
8/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
Single
Impact Score
6.4/10
Confidentiality Impact
Partial
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
Partial

CVSSv3.1 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.2/10
Exploit Score
1.2/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
Impact Score
5.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
High
Availability Impact
High
Integrity Impact
High
Scope
Unchanged
User Interaction
None

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
- -
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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