{"id":"CVE-2025-48828","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-48828","generatedAt":"2026-11-03T20:36:53.800Z","title":"Certain vBulletin versions might allow attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by abusing Template Conditionals in the template engine.","description":"Certain vBulletin versions might allow attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by abusing Template Conditionals in the template engine. By crafting template code in an alternative PHP function invocation syntax, such as the \"var_dump\"(\"test\") syntax, attackers can bypass security checks and execute arbitrary PHP code, as exploited in the wild in May 2025.","published":"2025-05-27T04:15:45.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:30:24.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-424"],"affected":["vbulletin/vbulletin"],"epss":{"score":0.57297,"percentile":0.99075,"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 57.3%, higher than 99% 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-2025-48828","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-2025-48828","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."}