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CVE-2025-50979

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-08-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

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.

Affected products

• NodeBB: 4.3.0

References

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

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