Bug 2039312 (CVE-2022-21663)

Summary: CVE-2022-21663 wordpress: authenticated object injection in multisites
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-01-11 13:37:58 UTC
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MariaDB database. On a multisite, users with Super Admin role can bypass explicit/additional hardening under certain conditions through object injection. 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 issue.

References:
https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-jmmq-m8p8-332h
https://wordpress.org/news/2022/01/wordpress-5-8-3-security-release/

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-01-11 13:38:14 UTC
Created wordpress tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 2039314]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2039313]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-01-11 15:32:18 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.