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CVE-2022-21663 json

Authenticated Object Injection in Multisites in WordPress

published 4y ago modified 2mo ago also BIT-wordpress-2022-21663 , BIT-wordpress-multisite-2022-21663 , EUVD-2022-26880 , GHSA-jmmq-m8p8-332h

cvss
6.6
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.8%
EPSS 3.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami wordpress 5.8.3
  • bitnami wordpress-multisite 5.8.3
  • wordpress wordpress 5.8.3
  • wordpress Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.8.3+dfsg1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-21663

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2022-21663 updated cvss 6.6

wordpress: authenticated object injection in multisites

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

3.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • blog.sonarsource.com https://blog.sonarsource.com/wordpress-object-injection-vulnerability/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
OSV 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami wordpress
<5.8.3
5.8.3
bitnami wordpress-multisite
<5.8.3
5.8.3

Affected products

  • WordPress wordpress-develop

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
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References

Sources

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The maintainers of WordPress/wordpress-develop published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.