CVE-2025-50979

Nodebb vulnerability

CVSS

8.6

EPSS

8.1%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

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.

Affected vendor

Nodebb

Affected product

Nodebb

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

Published

2025-08-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity, low impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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