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  7,321 live websites   are using vBulletin.

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Technology usage statistics

Websites using vBulletin:7,321 websites
Most popular in: United States
Market position in Message Boards category:#8
Market share in Message Boards:3.03%
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...4,527
Oct, 2019CVE-2019-17132vBulletin through 5.5.4 mishandles custom avatars.4,527
Oct, 2019CVE-2019-17131vBulletin before 5.5.4 allows clickjacking.4,527
Oct, 2019CVE-2019-17130vBulletin through 5.5.4 mishandles external URLs within the /core/vb/vurl.php file and the /core/vb/...4,527
Oct, 2018CVE-2018-15493vBulletin 5.4.3 has an Open Redirect.4,496
Apr, 2017CVE-2017-7569In vBulletin before 5.3.0, remote attackers can bypass the CVE-2016-6483 patch and conduct SSRF atta...4,481
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.4,422
Jul, 2012CVE-2012-3844Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vBulletin 4.1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbit...2,476
Aug, 2012CVE-2012-4686SQL injection vulnerability in announcement.php in vBulletin 4.1.10 allows remote attackers to execu...2,414
May, 2025CVE-2025-48827vBulletin 5.0.0 through 5.7.5 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.3 allows unauthenticated users to invoke protect...1,110

Technology adoption

Recent changes in vBulletin usage.
Websites that added vBulletin 101
Websites that dropped vBulletin 274
Websites that changed version of vBulletin  578

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Technology Information


Major Versions

  • 6.xx (12 subversions, 248 domains)
  • 5.xx (30 subversions, 1,071 domains)
  • 4.xx (29 subversions, 2,277 domains)
  • 3.xx (48 subversions, 2,181 domains)

vBulletin usage by Country

United States3,662 websites


Germany841 websites
Russia703 websites
France350 websites
GB217 websites
Netherlands162 websites
Poland123 websites
Italy98 websites
Canada93 websites
Vietnam82 websites

vBulletin usage by TLD

.com3,428 websites
.net780 websites
.ru653 websites
.org481 websites
.de356 websites
.co.uk130 websites
.pl125 websites
.info112 websites
.eu103 websites
.fr80 websites

vBulletin Versions

sorted by popularity
4.2.51,003 websites
3.8.7384 websites
5.7.5340 websites
4.2.3336 websites
3.8.11333 websites
4.2.2306 websites
5.7264 websites
3.8.4196 websites
4.2161 websites
3.8.9148 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 United States10,816
roboternetz.de Germany11,111
ubuntuforums.org GB18,953
forum.bytesforall.com United States22,218
youjoomla.com Germany29,964
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Always Used together


PHP: Total 22,699,950 domains found using PHP
Category - Programming Languages. 25,054,900 domains found using Programming Languages

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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 7,321 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-2025-48827, CVE-2025-48828, CVE-2019-17271, and CVE-2019-17132.