🛡️ CVE-2025-50979 — nodebb

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-89 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

NodeBB SQL Injection vulnerability

NodeBB v4.3.0 is vulnerable to SQL injection in its search-categories API endpoint (/api/v3/search/categories). The search query parameter is not properly sanitized, allowing unauthenticated, remote attackers to inject boolean-based blind and PostgreSQL error-based payloads.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-50979 is classified as CWE-89: SQL Injection. Untrusted input is concatenated into an SQL statement, letting an attacker change the query and reach data the request should not return.

Affected software

CVE-2025-50979 is recorded against 1 package.

  • nodebb

Timeline and source

Published on 27 August 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-89
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source OSV
Published 2025-08-27
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
nodebb — —

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