Security News > 2019 > September > vBulletin zero-day exploited in the wild in wake of exploit release

An anonymous bug hunter has released a working and elegantly simple exploit for a pre-authentication remote code execution flaw (CVE-2019-16759) affecting vBulletin and it didn’t take long for attackers to start using it. About vBulletin vBulletin is the most popular internet forum software in use today. W3Techs says that around 0.1% of all internet sites run a vBulletin forum, though only 6.4% of these use vulnerable 5.x versions. MH Sub I, the company that develops … More → The post vBulletin zero-day exploited in the wild in wake of exploit release appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Related Vulnerability
DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
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2019-09-24 | CVE-2019-16759 | Code Injection vulnerability in Vbulletin vBulletin 5.x through 5.5.4 allows remote command execution via the widgetConfig[code] parameter in an ajax/render/widget_php routestring request. | 9.8 |