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vBulletin widgetConfig RCE

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Disclosed
Sep 23, 2019
Created
Dec 11, 2019

Description

vBulletin 5.x through 5.5.4 allows remote command execution via the widgetConfig[code]
parameter in an ajax/render/widget_php routestring POST request.

Authors

unknown
mekhalleh (RAMELLA Sébastien)

Platform

PHP,Unix,Windows

Architectures

php, cmd

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/multi/http/vbulletin_widgetconfig_rce
    msf exploit(vbulletin_widgetconfig_rce) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(vbulletin_widgetconfig_rce) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(vbulletin_widgetconfig_rce) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(vbulletin_widgetconfig_rce) > exploit
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