CVE-2022-21662

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 workarounds for this issue.

How to fix CVE-2022-21662

To remediate CVE-2022-21662, 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-2022-21662 being exploited?

Moderate — EPSS is 14.2%. Track this CVE but it's not at the top of the prioritisation list.

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	MEDIUM5.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N