vBulletin

Category - Message Boards

vBulletin is a proprietary Internet forum software package. It is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database server.


We have discovered  5,514 live websites   are using vBulletin.

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Technology usage statistics

Websites using vBulletin:5,514 websites
Most popular in: United States
Market position in Message Boards category:#9
Market share in Message Boards:2.57%
Most popular version:4.2.5

Security vulnerabilites

Top 10 most common security vulnerabilities associated with vBulletin
PublishedCVETitleDomains
Oct, 2019CVE-2019-17271vBulletin 5.5.4 allows SQL Injection via the ajax/api/hook/getHookList or ajax/api/widget/getWidgetL...3,176
Oct, 2019CVE-2019-17132vBulletin through 5.5.4 mishandles custom avatars.3,176
Oct, 2019CVE-2019-17131vBulletin before 5.5.4 allows clickjacking.3,176
Oct, 2019CVE-2019-17130vBulletin through 5.5.4 mishandles external URLs within the /core/vb/vurl.php file and the /core/vb/...3,176
Oct, 2018CVE-2018-15493vBulletin 5.4.3 has an Open Redirect.3,148
Apr, 2017CVE-2017-7569In vBulletin before 5.3.0, remote attackers can bypass the CVE-2016-6483 patch and conduct SSRF atta...3,135
Jan, 2018CVE-2018-6200vBulletin 3.x.x and 4.2.x through 4.2.5 has an open redirect via the redirector.php url parameter.3,088
Jul, 2012CVE-2012-3844Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vBulletin 4.1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbit...1,848
Aug, 2012CVE-2012-4686SQL injection vulnerability in announcement.php in vBulletin 4.1.10 allows remote attackers to execu...1,804
Jul, 2026CVE-2026-61511vBulletin < 6.2.2 Eval Injection RCE via vb5/template/runtime.php1,532

Technology adoption

Recent changes in vBulletin usage.
Websites that added vBulletin 181
Websites that dropped vBulletin 107
Websites that changed version of vBulletin  404

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Technology Information


Major Versions

  • 6.xx (18 subversions, 602 domains)
  • 5.xx (30 subversions, 927 domains)
  • 4.xx (29 subversions, 1,484 domains)
  • 3.xx (45 subversions, 1,629 domains)

Website Distribution by Country

Number of websites using vBulletin
United States2,592 websites


Russia623 websites
Germany611 websites
France251 websites
GB181 websites
Poland136 websites
Italy88 websites
Netherlands87 websites
Turkey68 websites
Canada64 websites

Website Distribution by TLD

Number of websites using vBulletin
.com2,491 websites
.net590 websites
.ru523 websites
.org362 websites
.de288 websites
.eu128 websites
.pl115 websites
.co.uk87 websites
.info77 websites
.fr65 websites

vBulletin Versions

sorted by popularity
4.2.5622 websites
6.2318 websites
5.7.5290 websites
5.7290 websites
3.8.7280 websites
3.8.11242 websites
4.2.2214 websites
4.2.3199 websites
3.8.4158 websites
4.2111 websites

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Top Websites Using vBulletin

A look at the most popular websites built with vBulletin
DomainCountryRankContacts
zen-cart.com United States5,154
forums.goha.ru Russia10,816
roboternetz.de Germany11,111
youjoomla.com Germany29,964
slickdeals.net United States41,550
linuxquestions.org United States42,605
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Always Used together


PHP: Total 21,106,331 domains found using PHP
Category - Programming Languages. 23,447,228 domains found using Programming Languages

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SMF: Total 5,834 domains found using SMF
IPB: Total 5,493 domains found using IPB
Discourse: Total 5,479 domains found using Discourse

FAQ

vBulletin falls under the category of Message Boards.
WebTechSurvey systematically indexes websites and their technologies. Users can find websites using vBulletin through the WebTechSurvey platform.
There are currently 58,006,045 live websites that use vBulletin.
vBulletin holds less than 0.1% market share in the Message Boards category.
The main competitors to vBulletin include Discord, bbPress, phpBB, and BuddyPress.
vBulletin has a known security vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-61511, CVE-2026-9357, CVE-2025-46171, and CVE-2025-48828.