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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 11:10

Modified

2025-05-20 10:02

Summary

Stored XSS in WordPress

Details

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.

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    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "wordpress",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/wordpress"
      },
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
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            }
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        }
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      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-21662"
  ],
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    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
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  "id": "BIT-wordpress-2022-21662",
  "modified": "2025-05-20T10:02:07.006Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T11:10:13.268Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-699q-3hj9-889w"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00019.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CV4UNEC63UU5GEU47IIR4RMTZAHNEOJG/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
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    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://wordpress.org/news/2022/01/wordpress-5-8-3-security-release/"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5039"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
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    }
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  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "Stored XSS in WordPress"
}

CVE-2022-21662 (GCVE-0-2022-21662)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-06 23:05 – Updated: 2025-04-23 19:14

Title

Stored XSS in WordPress

Summary

Severity ?

8 (High)


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

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

	https://wordpress.org/news/2022/01/wordpress-5-8-…	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/se…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5039	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	WordPress	wordpress-develop	Affected: < 5.8.3

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2022-21662 (GCVE-0-2022-21662)

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