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ubuntu-cve-2022-21664

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2022-01-06 23:15

Modified

2025-10-24 04:53

Summary

Details

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.

Severity

7.4 (High)


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

8.8 (High)


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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-21664	REPORT
	https://wordpress.org/news/2022/01/wordpress-5-8-…	REPORT
	https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/se…	REPORT
	https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/co…	REPORT
	https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5039	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-21664	REPORT

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CVE-2022-21664 (GCVE-0-2022-21664)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-06 22:55 – Updated: 2025-04-23 19:14

Title

SQL injection in WordPress

Summary

Severity

7.4 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-23 14:12 UTC

CWE

CWE-89 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

7 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://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/co…	x_refsource_MISC
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

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
WordPress	wordpress-develop	Affected: >= 4.1.33, < 5.8.3

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