{"document":{"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","distribution":{"text":"Copyright © Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.","tlp":{"label":"WHITE","url":"https://www.first.org/tlp/"}},"lang":"en","notes":[{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.","title":"Terms of Use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/","issuing_authority":"Red Hat Product Security is responsible for vulnerability handling across all Red Hat products and services.","name":"Red Hat Product Security","namespace":"https://www.redhat.com"},"references":[{"category":"self","summary":"Canonical URL","url":"https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2022/cve-2022-21661.json"}],"title":"wordpress: SQL injection via WP_Query","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2025-11-21T11:12:39+00:00","generator":{"date":"2025-11-21T11:12:39+00:00","engine":{"name":"Red Hat SDEngine","version":"4.6.12"}},"id":"CVE-2022-21661","initial_release_date":"2022-01-06T00:00:00+00:00","revision_history":[{"date":"2022-01-06T00:00:00+00:00","number":"1","summary":"Initial version"},{"date":"2025-08-19T16:40:21+00:00","number":"2","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-11-21T11:12:39+00:00","number":"3","summary":"Last generated version"}],"status":"final","version":"3"}},"product_tree":{"branches":[{"category":"vendor","name":"Red Hat","product":{"name":"All currently supported Red Hat products","product_id":"red_hat_products","product_identification_helper":{"cpe":"cpe:/a:redhat"}}}]},"vulnerabilities":[{"cve":"CVE-2022-21661","discovery_date":"2022-01-07T00:00:00+00:00","flags":[{"label":"vulnerable_code_not_present","product_ids":["red_hat_products"]}],"notes":[{"category":"description","text":"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.","title":"Vulnerability description"},{"category":"other","text":"Red Hat Product Security has determined that this vulnerability does not affect any currently supported Red Hat product. This assessment may evolve based on further analysis and discovery. For more information about this vulnerability and the products it affects, please see the linked references.","title":"Statement"},{"category":"general","text":"The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.","title":"CVSS score applicability"}],"product_status":{"known_not_affected":["red_hat_products"]},"references":[{"category":"self","summary":"Canonical URL","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-21661"},{"category":"external","summary":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-21661","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-21661"}],"release_date":"2022-01-06T00:00:00+00:00","scores":[{"cvss_v3":{"attackComplexity":"HIGH","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":8.0,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"HIGH","scope":"CHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"products":["red_hat_products"]}],"title":"wordpress: SQL injection via WP_Query"}]}