CVE-2013-3522

medium

Published 2013-05-10 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in index.php/ajax/api/reputation/vote in vBulletin 5.0.0 Beta 11, 5.0.0 Beta 28, and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the nodeid parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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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.

Metasploit modules

exploit_unix/webapp/vbulletin_vote_sqli_exec rank 600

vBulletin index.php/ajax/api/reputation/vote nodeid Parameter SQL Injection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

auxiliary_gather/vbulletin_vote_sqli rank 300

vBulletin Password Collector via nodeid SQL Injection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
vbulletin	vbulletin	`5.0.0`

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.