Security News > 2019 > September > vBulletin zero-day exploited in the wild in wake of exploit release
2019-09-25 09:27
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.
News URL
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HelpNetSecurity/~3/GOwbGBRuVPQ/
Related news
- North Korean ScarCruft Exploits Windows Zero-Day to Spread RokRAT Malware (source)
- Hackers exploit 52 zero-days on the first day of Pwn2Own Ireland (source)
- Lazarus hackers used fake DeFi game to exploit Google Chrome zero-day (source)
- Botnet exploits GeoVision zero-day to install Mirai malware (source)
- Mystery Palo Alto Networks hijack-my-firewall zero-day now officially under exploit (source)
- Chinese hackers exploit Fortinet VPN zero-day to steal credentials (source)
Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |