{"id":"CVE-2013-6129","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2013-6129","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T07:20:26.923Z","title":"The install/upgrade.php scripts in vBulletin 4.1 and 5 allow remote attackers to create administrative accounts via the customerid, htmldata[password], htmldata[confirmpassword], and htmldata[email] parameters, as exploited in the wild in October 2013.","description":"The install/upgrade.php scripts in vBulletin 4.1 and 5 allow remote attackers to create administrative accounts via the customerid, htmldata[password], htmldata[confirmpassword], and htmldata[email] parameters, as exploited in the wild in October 2013.","published":"2013-10-19T10:36:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:00:00.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-264"],"affected":["vbulletin/vbulletin"],"epss":{"score":0.51887,"percentile":0.98953,"date":"2026-11-04","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2013-10-13","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":38785,"kind":"exploit","title":"vBulletin 4.1.x - '/install/upgrade.php' Security Bypass","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38785","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/php/webapps/38785.pl","file":"exploits/php/webapps/38785.pl","published":"2013-10-13","added":"2013-10-13","updated":"2015-11-23","author":"Joshua Rogers","type":"webapps","platform":"php","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["CVE-2013-6129","OSVDB-98370"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":"https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62909/info"}]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 51.9%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=15743","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/vbulletin-announcements/vbulletin-announcements_aa/3991423-potential-vbulletin-exploit-vbulletin-4-1-vbulletin-5","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=15743","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/vbulletin-announcements/vbulletin-announcements_aa/3991423-potential-vbulletin-exploit-vbulletin-4-1-vbulletin-5","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6129","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}