{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2019-16759 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2019-16759 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. US federal agencies must fix it by 3 May 2022.","what":"CVE-2019-16759 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Vbulletin Vbulletin, published on 24 Sep 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2019-16759 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2019-16759 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Vbulletin Vbulletin, published on 24 Sep 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2019-16759 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021.\n\nAffected product: Vbulletin Vbulletin. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-16759/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-16759/index.md)","id":"CVE-2019-16759","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-16759/index.md","name":"CVE-2019-16759","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-c7wq-5768-48mp"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"vBulletin forum software","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code on vBulletin servers by injecting PHP code into the widget configuration parameter.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"code_injection"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"vbulletin","vendor":"vbulletin"}],"cvss":{"score":9.8,"severity":"critical","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-94","name":"Improper Control of Generation of Code"}],"description":"vBulletin 5.x through 5.5.4 allows remote command execution via the widgetConfig[code] parameter in an ajax/render/widget_php routestring request.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":2,"first_seen":"2019-09-23","github_poc":13,"max_poc_stars":21,"metasploit":1,"nuclei":1,"refs":[{"date":"2019-09-26T03:56:22Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/jas502n/CVE-2019-16759","stars":21,"title":"vBulletin 5.x  未授权远程代码执行漏洞"},{"date":"2019-10-02T16:46:43Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/theLSA/vbulletin5-rce","stars":20,"title":"CVE-2019-16759 vbulletin 5.0.0 till 5.5.4 pre-auth rce"},{"date":"2020-08-16T18:17:33Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/0xdims/CVE-2019-16759","stars":6,"title":"This tools will extracts and dumps Email + SMTP from vBulletin database server"},{"date":"2019-09-25T16:12:27Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/M0sterHxck/CVE-2019-16759-Vbulletin-rce-exploit","stars":5,"title":"Vbulletin rce exploit CVE-2019-16759"},{"date":"2019-10-12T18:51:16Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/FarjaalAhmad/CVE-2019-16759","stars":4,"title":"Interactive-Like Command-Line Console for CVE-2019-16759"},{"date":"2019-12-29T18:49:15Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/andripwn/pwn-vbulletin","stars":4,"title":"Identify vulnerable (RCE) vBulletin 5.0.0 - 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