PT-2022-15017 · Mariadb+1 · Mariadb+1

Karim El Ouerghemmi + 1 · CVE-2022-21663 · Published 2022-01-06 · Updated 2024-03-06

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 5.8.3 WordPress versions prior to 3.7.37

Description The issue concerns 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.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.8.3, update to version 5.8.3 or later. For versions prior to 3.7.37, update to version 3.7.37 or later. As a general measure, keep auto-updates enabled to ensure the latest security patches are applied.

Exploit

Fix

Special Elements Injection

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-74

CWE-502

Related Identifiers

BIT-WORDPRESS-2022-21663

BIT-WORDPRESS-MULTISITE-2022-21663

CVE-2022-21663

DLA-2884-1

DSA-5039-1

GHSA-JMMQ-M8P8-332H

Affected Products

Mariadb

Wordpress

References · 28

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/21xxx/CVE-2022-21663.json · Exploit
• 🔥 https://blog.sonarsource.com/wordpress-object-injection-vulnerability · Exploit
• https://wordpress.org/news/2022/01/wordpress-5-8-3-security-release · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-21663 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-wordpress-multisite-2022-21663 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-wordpress-2022-21663 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DM6XPH3JN6V4NF4WBOJTOXZIVE6VKKE3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-2884-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-5039-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-21663 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-21663 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5039 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-21663 · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CV4UNEC63UU5GEU47IIR4RMTZAHNEOJG · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21663 · Security Note