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Hackers are exploiting critical flaw in vBulletin forum software

ID: fbdc951f-69e7-50ce-8c63-fcaef5e26884

STIX ID: report--fbdc951f-69e7-50ce-8c63-fcaef5e26884

Feed Name: Bleeping Computer

Threat Score
80/100

Date Published: 2025-05-30

Date Updated: 2026-04-20

Author: Bill Toulas

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Two critical vulnerabilities in vBulletin (CVE-2025-48827 and CVE-2025-48828) affecting versions 5.0.0–5.7.5 and 6.0.0–6.0.3 on PHP 8.1+ allow attackers to invoke protected methods via PHP Reflection and inject template code to achieve fully remote, unauthenticated code execution; a public PoC and exploitation attempts (targeting the ajax/api/ad/replaceAdTemplate endpoint) have been observed, and administrators are advised to apply the available patches or upgrade to vBulletin 6.1.1.

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