🛡️ UBUNTU-CVE-2022-21662
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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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.

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-01-06
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-10-24
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
wordpress

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