CVE-2016-6195

critical
Published 2016-08-30 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8

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

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=322848

Application impact

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

References

CWEs

CWE-89

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