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CVE-2015-5482

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-08-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

• Milan Petrovic GD bbPress Attachments: through 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

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