CVE-2022-45816

FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-45816 describes an authenticated stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the GD bbPress Attachments plugin up to version 4.3.1 on WordPress. With a CVSS score of 5.4 (Medium), this vulnerability allows a low-privileged attacker to inject malicious scripts, potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 4.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:dev4press:gd_bbpress_attachments::::::wordpress::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.8MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

1.7

Impact Score

2.7

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.42%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

34.2%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-25

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 51st percentile among its peer group of 15,224 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

patchstack.com / database/vulnerability/gd-bbpress-attachments/wordpress-gd-bbpress-attachments-plugin-4-3-1-auth-stored-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

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