CVE-2022-21662: WordPress wordpress-develop

Stored XSS in WordPress

CVSS 8.0 HighCriticalEPSS 0.65 · 99th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 8.0 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.65 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: GitHub_M) at 6 Jan 2022, 23:05 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
WordPress	wordpress-develop	affected < 5.8.3

Identifiers

CVE-2022-21662

CNA

GitHub_M

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-79

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.0	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.65, the 99th percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 6 Jan 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

wordpress.org/news/2022/01/wordpress-5-8-3-security-release/
github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-699q-3hj9-889w confirm
www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5039 vendor-advisorydebian
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DM6XPH3JN6V4NF4WBOJTOXZIVE6VKKE3/ vendor-advisoryfedora
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CV4UNEC63UU5GEU47IIR4RMTZAHNEOJG/ vendor-advisoryfedora
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00019.html mailing-listmlist

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.