CVE-2013-6129

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 51.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-10-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

vBulletin: 4.1, 5.0.0

References

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=15743
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/vbulletin-announcements/vbulletin-announcements_aa/3991423-potential-vbulletin-exploit-vbulletin-4-1-vbulletin-5
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=15743
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/vbulletin-announcements/vbulletin-announcements_aa/3991423-potential-vbulletin-exploit-vbulletin-4-1-vbulletin-5

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