CVE-2025-48827 (GCVE-0-2025-48827)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-27 00:00
Modified
2025-05-27 18:03
Severity ?
10.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-424 - Improper Protection of Alternate Path
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://karmainsecurity.com/dont-call-that-protected-method-vbulletin-rceExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://kevintel.com/CVE-2025-48827Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://blog.kevintel.com/vbulletin-replaceadtemplate-kev/Broken Link
Impacted products
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