SB2025070266 - Cross-site scripting in WP Attachments plugin for WordPress
Published: July 2, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-5082)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the "attachment_id" parameter. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-attachments/tags/5.0.12/inc/html/attachmentEditIframe.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-attachments/tags/5.0.12/inc/ij-post-attachments.php#L274
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3300269/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-attachments/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bdc33ecc-da54-4852-8426-bfafe0dca41b?source=cve