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Dangerous VBulletin Exploit In the Wild
An anonymous reader writes "vBulletin is a popular proprietary CMS that was recently reported to be vulnerable to an unspecified attack vector. Although vBulletin has not disclosed the root cause of the vulnerability or its impact, we determined the attacker's methods. The identified vulnerability allows an attacker to abuse the vBulletin configuration mechanism in order to create a secondary administrative account. Once the attacker creates the account, they will have full control over the exploited vBulletin application, and subsequently the supported site."
This is old news (2013-08-27) even by Slashdot's standards. Forums that were vulnerable have been probably all hacked (then fixed) already ;)
You're also not supposed to have security compromising settings activated by default, when you manufacture a software product. You know that there will always be people who run it in production straight out of the box.