CVE-2022-36076: Nodebb

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NodeBB Forum Software is powered by Node.js and supports either Redis, MongoDB, or a PostgreSQL database. Due to an unnecessarily strict conditional in the code handling the first step of the SSO process, the pre-existing logic that added (and later checked) a nonce was inadvertently rendered opt-in instead of opt-out. This re-exposed a vulnerability in that a specially crafted Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack could theoretically take over another user account during the single sign-on process. The issue has been fully patched in version 1.17.2.

Affected products

• Nodebb Nodebb: before 1.17.2 (fixed in 1.17.2)

Published 2022-09-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.