CVE-2025-50979

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-50979
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-50979.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-50979
Aliases
Published
2025-08-27T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-07-08T07:14:52.357066331Z
Severity
  • 8.6 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "mitre",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/50xxx/CVE-2025-50979.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/nodebb/nodebb

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/nodebb/nodebb
Events
Introduced
7b43b1b80e7bc96b21860349cf17603a226b20f2
Last affected
7b43b1b80e7bc96b21860349cf17603a226b20f2
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "4.3.0-NA"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.3.0-NA"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:nodebb:nodebb:4.3.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

4.*
4.3.0-NA
v4.*
v4.3.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-50979.json"