CVE-2014-9438

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-01-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Moderator Control Panel in vBulletin 4.2.2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) ban a user via the username parameter in a dobanuser action to modcp/banning.php or (2) unban a user, (3) modify user profiles, edit a (4) post or (5) topic, or approve a (6) post or (7) topic via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

vBulletin: 4.2.2

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129619/vBulletin-Moderator-Control-Panel-4.2.2-CSRF.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99472
https://rstforums.com/forum/88810-csrf-vbulletin-modcp.rst
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129619/vBulletin-Moderator-Control-Panel-4.2.2-CSRF.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99472
https://rstforums.com/forum/88810-csrf-vbulletin-modcp.rst

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