CVE-2016-6195

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 68.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-08-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in forumrunner/includes/moderation.php in vBulletin before 4.2.2 Patch Level 5 and 4.2.3 before Patch Level 1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the postids parameter to forumrunner/request.php, as exploited in the wild in July 2016.

Affected products

vBulletin: through 4.2.2; 4.2.3

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92687
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=322848
https://enumerated.wordpress.com/2016/07/11/1/
https://github.com/drewlong/vbully
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92687
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=322848
https://enumerated.wordpress.com/2016/07/11/1/
https://github.com/drewlong/vbully

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