CVE-2025-48827

State: Published
Severity: 10.0 Critical
Published: May 27, 2025
Updated: May 27, 2025
Reserved: May 27, 2025

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	10.0 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	mitre

Weaknesses

CWE-424 Improper Protection of Alternate Path

Affected Products

Product	Versions
vBulletinvBulletin	5.0.0 through 5.7.5Affected 6.0.0 through 6.0.3Affected

References

https://karmainsecurity.com/dont-call-that-protected-method-vbulletin-rce
https://kevintel.com/CVE-2025-48827
https://blog.kevintel.com/vbulletin-replaceadtemplate-kev/exploit

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