CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-48827
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-05-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 10.0 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-424
Description
vBulletin 5.0.0 through 5.7.5 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.3 allows unauthenticated users to invoke protected API controllers' methods when running on PHP 8.1 or later, as demonstrated by the /api.php?method=protectedMethod pattern, as exploited in the wild in May 2025.
Affected configurations
• vbulletin vbulletin (>= 5.0.0 <= 5.7.5)
• vbulletin vbulletin (>= 6.0.0 <= 6.0.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-424 Improper Protection of Alternate Path weakness
References
- https://karmainsecurity.com/dont-call-that-protected-method-vbulletin-rce Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://kevintel.com/CVE-2025-48827 Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.kevintel.com/vbulletin-replaceadtemplate-kev/ Broken Link