Fluid Attacks Database

Description

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MariaDB database. Due to improper sanitization in WP_Query, there can be cases where SQL injection is possible through plugins or themes that use it in a certain way. 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 vulnerability.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Component	Affected version	Patched versions
debian 11	wordpress	=5.7.1+dfsg1-2 \|\| =5.7.3+dfsg1-0+deb11u1 \|\| >=0 <5.7.5+dfsg1-0+deb11u1	5.7.5+dfsg1-0+deb11u1
debian 13	wordpress	>=0 <5.8.3+dfsg1-1	5.8.3+dfsg1-1
debian 12	wordpress	>=0 <5.8.3+dfsg1-1	5.8.3+dfsg1-1
debian 14	wordpress	>=0 <5.8.3+dfsg1-1	5.8.3+dfsg1-1

Aliases

1. CVE-2022-216612. NVD-2022-216613. OSV-DEBIAN-2022-216614. OSV-2022-216615. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2022-21661

References

1. https://vulncheck.com/cve/CVE-2022-216612. https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-21661.yaml3. https://github.com/purple-WL/wordpress-CVE-2022-21661

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