VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6195

critical
Published 2016-08-30 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-40751 webapps php verified
Manish Tanwar · 2015-08-25

vBulletin 3.6.0 < 4.2.3 - 'ForumRunner' SQL Injection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vbulletinvbulletin{"endIncluding":"4.2.2"}
vbulletinvbulletin4.2.3

References

CWEs

CWE-89

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.