CVE-2020-15149: Nodebb

Critical severity, CVSS 9.9. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NodeBB before version 1.14.3 has a bug introduced in version 1.12.2 in the validation logic that makes it possible to change the password of any user on a running NodeBB forum by sending a specially crafted socket.io call to the server. This could lead to a privilege escalation event due via an account takeover. As a workaround you may cherry-pick the following commit from the project's repository to your running instance of NodeBB: 16cee1b03ba3eee177834a1fdac4aa8a12b39d2a. This is fixed in version 1.14.3.

Affected products

• Nodebb Nodebb: from 1.12.2, before 1.14.3 (fixed in 1.14.3)

Published 2020-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.