WordPress Core < 5.8.3 — SQL Injection via WP_Meta_Query
CVE-2022-21664Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <5.8.3Update to 4.1.34 or 4.2.31 or 4.3.27 or 4.4.26 or 4.5.25 or 4.6.22 or 4.7.22 or 4.8.18 or 4.9.19 or 5.0.15 or 5.1.12 or 5.2.14 or 5.3.11 or 5.4.9 or 5.5.8 or 5.6.7 or 5.7.5 or 5.8.3 or newer
Fixed versions are per release branch: update to the fix for the branch you run.
All remediation stepsOn this page3
Overview
- Advisory ID
- CVE-2022-21664
- Product
- WordPress wordpress
- Affected
- <5.8.3
- Fixed in
- 4.1.34, 4.2.31, 4.3.27, 4.4.26, 4.5.25, 4.6.22, 4.7.22, 4.8.18, 4.9.19, 5.0.15, 5.1.12, 5.2.14, 5.3.11, 5.4.9, 5.5.8, 5.6.7, 5.7.5, 5.8.3
- Weakness
- CWE-89 SQL Injection
- Required access
- Unknown
- Published
- · updated
- Credit
- Ben Bidner
- Source
- Wordfence Intelligence
- Affected< 5.8.3
- Patched in4.1.34 / 4.2.31 / 4.3.27 / 4.4.26 / 4.5.25 / 4.6.22 / 4.7.22 / 4.8.18 / 4.9.19 / 5.0.15 / 5.1.12 / 5.2.14 / 5.3.11 / 5.4.9 / 5.5.8 / 5.6.7 / 5.7.5 / 5.8.3
Update to 4.1.34 / 4.2.31 / 4.3.27 / 4.4.26 / 4.5.25 / 4.6.22 / 4.7.22 / 4.8.18 / 4.9.19 / 5.0.15 / 5.1.12 / 5.2.14 / 5.3.11 / 5.4.9 / 5.5.8 / 5.6.7 / 5.7.5 / 5.8.3 or newer.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:LWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:LAvailability- Low
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MariaDB database. Due to lack of proper sanitization in one of the classes, there's potential for unintended SQL queries to be executed. This has been patched in WordPress version 5.8.3. Older affected versions are also fixed via security release, that go back till 4.1.34. We strongly recommend that you keep auto-updates enabled. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
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Remediation & mitigations
- Update to one of the following versions, or a newer patched version: 4.1.34, 4.2.31, 4.3.27, 4.4.26, 4.5.25, 4.6.22, 4.7.22, 4.8.18, 4.9.19, 5.0.15, 5.1.12, 5.2.14, 5.3.11, 5.4.9, 5.5.8, 5.6.7, 5.7.5, 5.8.3
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
References & provenance
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.4
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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