CVE-2022-21661

mediumpriority · attend · 74EPSS 0.978 · 100 %ileexploit · PoCEURUUS
grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent
Exploitable?
Public exploit
13 exploits · PoC
Likely / severe?
97.8% (100th) EPSS
CVSS 5 · medium
Is it mine?
78 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
5 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.0
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–8

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9
v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6
v3.17.5highAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU
v3.18highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.18highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 1.3 · impact 6
v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-89USprimaryCWE-89US
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exploits (13)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

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affected products (78)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

  • BIT-wordpress-2022-21661SQL injection in WordPress2024-03-06vendor · osvUS

    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.

  • BIT-wordpress-multisite-2022-21661SQL injection in WordPress2024-03-06vendor · osvUS

    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.

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also known as (9)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvdenisa_euvdfstec_bduosvnvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2022-01-06modified 2026-06-17
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references (38)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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