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FKIE_CVE-2011-5251

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-12-31 20:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:36

Severity

Summary

Open redirect vulnerability in forum/login.php in vBulletin 4.1.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via the url parameter in a lostpw action.

References

	URL	Tags
	cve@mitre.org	http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/381014-Potential-Phishing-Vector?p=2166441
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/381014-Potential-Phishing-Vector?p=2166441

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
vbulletin	vbulletin	*
vbulletin	vbulletin	4.0.0
vbulletin	vbulletin	4.0.1
vbulletin	vbulletin	4.0.2
vbulletin	vbulletin	4.0.3
vbulletin	vbulletin	4.0.4
vbulletin	vbulletin	4.0.5
vbulletin	vbulletin	4.0.6
vbulletin	vbulletin	4.0.7
vbulletin	vbulletin	4.0.8
vbulletin	vbulletin	4.1
vbulletin	vbulletin	4.1.1
vbulletin	vbulletin	4.1.2

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CVE-2011-5251 (GCVE-0-2011-5251)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-12-31 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:16

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/381…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

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FKIE_CVE-2011-5251

CVE-2011-5251 (GCVE-0-2011-5251)

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