CVE-2025-48828 Information

Description

Certain vBulletin versions might allow attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by abusing Template Conditionals in the template engine. By crafting template code in an alternative PHP function invocation syntax such as the ar_dump( est) syntax attackers can bypass security checks and execute arbitrary PHP code as exploited in the wild in May 2025.

Reference

https://blog.kevintel.com/vbulletin-replaceadtemplate-kev/ https://karmainsecurity.com/dont-call-that-protected-method-vbulletin-rce https://kevintel.com/CVE-2025-48828