Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-9438

Title: Vbulletin Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-9438.

CWE Category CWE-352
Published Date Jan 02, 2015
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.12%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-9438: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Moderator Control Panel in vBulletin 4.2.2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) ban a user via the username parameter in a dobanuser action to modcp/banning.php or (2) unban a user, (3) modify user profiles, edit a (4) post or (5) topic, or approve a (6) post or (7) topic via unspecified vectors.

Impacted Vendors

J
jelsoft 1
V
vbulletin 1

Reference Links

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129619/vBulletin-Moderator-Control-Panel-4.2.2-CSRF.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99472 https://rstforums.com/forum/88810-csrf-vbulletin-modcp.rst http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129619/vBulletin-Moderator-Control-Panel-4.2.2-CSRF.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99472 https://rstforums.com/forum/88810-csrf-vbulletin-modcp.rst
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.8
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-9438 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.