CVE-2025-50979_CVE-2025-50979

8.6 / 10

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-50979

Source mitre

Published Aug 27, 2025 at 00:00

Modified Aug 27, 2025 at 18:24

Affected Product

Vendor n/a

Product n/a

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CWE Classification

CWE-89

References

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

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