GHSA-rfh2-8vxq-jqr8

NodeBB SQL Injection vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2025-50979

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	nodebb	<= 4.3.0	no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-50979 advisory
https://github.com/4rdr/proofs/blob/main/info/NodeBB-v4.3.0.-SQL-Injection-via-search-parameter.md web
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB package