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CVE-2015-5481

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-08-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in forms/panels.php in the GD bbPress Attachments plugin before 2.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the tab parameter in the gdbbpress_attachments page to wp-admin/edit.php.

Affected products

• Milan Petrovic GD bbPress Attachments: through 2.2

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132657/WordPress-GD-bbPress-Attachments-2.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jul/53
• https://security.dxw.com/advisories/reflected-xss-in-gd-bbpress-attachments-allows-an-attacker-to-do-almost-anything-an-admin-can/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/changelog/
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8088
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132657/WordPress-GD-bbPress-Attachments-2.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jul/53
• https://security.dxw.com/advisories/reflected-xss-in-gd-bbpress-attachments-allows-an-attacker-to-do-almost-anything-an-admin-can/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/changelog/
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8088

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