DEBIAN-CVE-2022-21661

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-21661
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-21661.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-21661
Upstream
Published
2022-01-06T23:15:07Z
Modified
2025-09-30T05:15:33.505953Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / wordpress

Package

Name
wordpress
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/wordpress?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.7.5+dfsg1-0+deb11u1

Affected versions

5.*

5.7.1+dfsg1-2
5.7.3+dfsg1-0+deb11u1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / wordpress

Package

Name
wordpress
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/wordpress?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.8.3+dfsg1-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / wordpress

Package

Name
wordpress
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/wordpress?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.8.3+dfsg1-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / wordpress

Package

Name
wordpress
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/wordpress?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.8.3+dfsg1-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}