GD bbPress Attachments <= 2.2 is vulnerable to Directory Traversal

Administrator

Published
2015-07-09

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.

CVE

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5482

CVSS

Score:4.1

Severity:Medium

Version: 2.2

There is a patch available in v2.3 and we strongly recommend you update to this version as soon as possible.