⚠ Exploited in the wild
Exploitation observed in the wild. Not yet on CISA KEV.
CVE-2022-21662 — Cross-site Scripting in Wordpress Wordpress-develop
Severity
5.4MEDIUMNVD
VulnCheck8.0
EPSS
14.2%
top 5.59%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
Exploited in wild
Active exploitation observed
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 6
Latest updateAug 19
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 workarou…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.3 | Impact: 2.7
Affected Packages4 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 11.0, 9.0
🔴Vulnerability Details
2📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2022-21662: wordpress - WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and...↗2022