CVE-2025-50979: Nodebb

High severity, CVSS 8.6. EPSS: 9.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Nodebb: version 4.3.0 only

Published 2025-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.