CVE-2025-50979

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-89 SQL Injection

Publication date:

27/08/2025

Last modified:

09/09/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.60 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x

8.60

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:nodebb:nodebb:4.3.0:-::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://github.com/4rdr/proofs/blob/main/info/NodeBB-v4.3.0.-SQL-Injection-via-search-parameter.md