Description
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MariaDB database. Due to lack of proper sanitization in one of the classes, there's potential for unintended SQL queries to be executed. This has been patched in WordPress version 5.8.3. Older affected versions are also fixed via security release, that go back till 4.1.34. We strongly recommend that you keep auto-updates enabled. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wordpress.org/news/2022/01/wordpress-5-8-3-security-release/
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-jp3p-gw8h-6x86
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/c09ccfbc547d75b392dbccc1ef0b4442ccd3c957
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5039
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DM6XPH3JN6V4NF4WBOJTOXZIVE6VKKE3/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CV4UNEC63UU5GEU47IIR4RMTZAHNEOJG/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00019.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.4
EPSS
0.0374
EPSS Percentile
88.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-89
Status
published
Products (6)
debian/debian_linux
9.0
debian/debian_linux
10.0
debian/debian_linux
11.0
fedoraproject/fedora
34
fedoraproject/fedora
35
wordpress/wordpress
< 5.8.3
Published
Jan 06, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026