PT-2025-34905 · Nodebb · Nodebb

Published 2025-08-27 · Updated 2025-08-29 · CVE-2025-50979

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

8.7

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: NodeBB version 4.3.0

Description: NodeBB version 4.3.0 contains a SQL injection issue in the search-categories API endpoint (/api/v3/search/categories). The search query parameter is not properly sanitized, potentially allowing unauthenticated, remote attackers to inject payloads.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

SQL injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-89

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-50979

GHSA-RFH2-8VXQ-JQR8

Affected Products

Nodebb

References · 11

• 🔥 https://github.com/4rdr/proofs/blob/main/info/NodeBB-v4.3.0.-SQL-Injection-via-search-parameter.md · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-rfh2-8vxq-jqr8 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-50979 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-50979 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB · Note
• https://t.me/pentestingnews/67147 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/the_yellow_fall/status/1961258052570820928 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/31041 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CCBalert/status/1961425597801853208 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1960769600238301346 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1960839692766548246 · Twitter Post