CVE-2022-21664

Description

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MariaDB database. Due to lack of proper sanitization in one of the classes, there's potential for unintended SQL queries to be executed. This has been patched in WordPress version 5.8.3. Older affected versions are also fixed via security release, that go back till 4.1.34. We strongly recommend that you keep auto-updates enabled. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

How to fix CVE-2022-21664

To remediate CVE-2022-21664, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

—upgrade to 5.8.3 or later
—upgrade to 5.8.3 or later
—upgrade to 5.7.5+dfsg1-0+deb11u1 or later

Is CVE-2022-21664 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 3.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (3)

from 0, < 5.8.3
from 0, < 5.8.3
from 0, < 5.7.5+dfsg1-0+deb11u1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H