CVE-2015-5482
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.0
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the GD bbPress Attachments plugin before 2.3 for WordPress allows remote administrators to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the tab parameter in the gdbbpress_attachments page to wp-admin/edit.php.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| dev4press | gd_bbpress_attachments | {"endIncluding":"2.2"} | |
References
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132656/wpgdbbpress-lfi.txt
- https://security.dxw.com/advisories/local-file-include-vulnerability-in-gd-bbpress-attachments-allows-attackers-to-include-arbitrary-php-files/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/changelog/
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8087
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132656/wpgdbbpress-lfi.txt
- https://security.dxw.com/advisories/local-file-include-vulnerability-in-gd-bbpress-attachments-allows-attackers-to-include-arbitrary-php-files/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/changelog/
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8087
CWEs
CWE-22
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.