{"id":"CVE-2025-48827","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-48827","generatedAt":"2026-11-03T20:36:52.803Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2025-05-27T04:15:41.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:30:23.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-424"],"affected":["vbulletin/vbulletin"],"epss":{"score":0.75638,"percentile":0.99521,"date":"2026-11-02","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 75.6%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://karmainsecurity.com/dont-call-that-protected-method-vbulletin-rce","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://kevintel.com/CVE-2025-48827","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://blog.kevintel.com/vbulletin-replaceadtemplate-kev/","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48827","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."}