CVE-2022-21662 HIGH

CVE-2022-21662: Stored XSS in WordPress

Vendor Wordpress
Product wordpress-develop
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published January 6, 2022
Last update April 23, 2025
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CVSS base score

8.0/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

January 6, 2022 CVE published
April 23, 2025 Record updated