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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2022-01-06T22:50:11.000Z
Updated: 2024-09-09T14:13:15.875Z
Reserved: 2021-11-16T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2022-21661
Updated: 2024-08-19T07:48:16.240Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2022-01-06T23:15:07.933
Modified: 2025-08-19T16:35:50.347
Link: CVE-2022-21661
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