CVE-2022-21663

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.2

MODERATE

Vector

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

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.31

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
wordpress security update(DSA-5039-1) wordpress_5.7.5+dfsg1-0+deb11u1_all.deb	Linux
wordpress security update(DSA-5039-1) wordpress_5.0.15+dfsg1-0+deb10u1_all.deb	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234