WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MariaDB database. Low-privileged authenticated users (like author) in WordPress core are able to execute JavaScript/perform stored XSS attack, which can affect high-privileged users. 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2022-01-06T23:05:10.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-23T19:14:24.190Z

Reserved: 2021-11-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-21662

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T02:46:39.402Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-01-06T23:15:08.003

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:45:10.917

Link: CVE-2022-21662

cve-icon Redhat

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