Fluid Attacks Database

Description

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MariaDB database. On a multisite, users with Super Admin role can bypass explicit/additional hardening under certain conditions through object injection. 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.

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-2022-216632. NVD-2022-216633. OSV-DEBIAN-2022-216634. OSV-2022-216635. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2022-21663

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