CVE-2022-216628.0HighCWE-79

CVE-2022-21662: Stored XSS in WordPress

WordPress · wordpress-develop

Vendor fix available · Affected: wordpress-develop · Exploitation: likely to be exploited (10% or more)

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64.5%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

99th percentile

050100

Higher than 99% of scored CVEs

8.0HighCVSS 3.1

LowMediumHighCrit.

DescriptionCVE.org

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.

Affected products1

From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.

WordPress · wordpress-develop< 5.8.3

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Exploitation: Likely to be exploited (10% or more). EPSS gives it a 10% or higher chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Cross-site Scripting
Vendor: WordPress
Published: January 2022
Band: Likely to be exploited (10% or more), January 2022

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