NodeBB operates a focused web-based community and forum platform whose vulnerability footprint, while concentrated in a single product, spans issues endemic to server-rendered web applications. Vulnerabilities affecting the vendor skew toward serious outcomes, with an elevated share reaching critical severity, and recur consistently through weakness classes including cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, improper authentication, path traversal, and insufficient input validation on exceptional conditions. These classes reflect the intersection of user-generated content handling, state management, and access control that characterize forum and discussion platforms. Defenders deploying NodeBB should prioritize patches addressing authentication and input-handling flaws and restrict administrative access; live severity and exploitation counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Nodebb over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (21 CVEs).
21 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2023-43187CRITICAL A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the xmlrpc.php endpoint of NodeBB Inc NodeBB forum software prior to v1.18.6 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted X | Sep 27, 2023 | 9.8 | 61 | NO | YES |
CVE-2023-30591HIGH Denial-of-service in NodeBB <= v2.8.10 allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger a crash, when invoking `eventName.startsWith()` or `eventName.toString()`, while processing Socke | Sep 29, 2023 | 7.5 | 51 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-46164CRITICAL NodeBB is an open source Node.js based forum software. Due to a plain object with a prototype being used in socket.io message handling a specially crafted payload can be used to im | Dec 5, 2022 | 9.8 | 50 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-58593HIGH NodeBB does not bind the claimed author of an inbound ActivityPub object to the authenticated remote actor. The inbound middleware verifies the HTTP-signature actor and checks the | Jul 1, 2026 | 7.5 | 35 | NO | NO |
CVE-2025-50979HIGH 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 unaut | Aug 27, 2025 | 8.6 | 34 | NO | NO |
CVE-2025-29513MEDIUM Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in NodeBB v4.0.4 and before allows remote attackers to store arbitrary code in the admin API Access token generator. | Apr 18, 2025 | 6.1 | 32 | NO | NO |
CVE-2024-57041MEDIUM A persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in NodeBB v3.11.0 allows remote attackers to store arbitrary code in the 'about me' section of their profile. | Jan 24, 2025 | 4.6 | 32 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-36045CRITICAL NodeBB Forum Software is powered by Node.js and supports either Redis, MongoDB, or a PostgreSQL database. It utilizes web sockets for instant interactions and real-time notificatio | Aug 31, 2022 | 9.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2021-43788MEDIUM Nodebb is an open source Node.js based forum software. Prior to v1.18.5, a path traversal vulnerability was present that allowed users to access JSON files outside of the expected | Nov 29, 2021 | 5.0 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2023-26045CRITICAL NodeBB is Node.js based forum software. Starting in version 2.5.0 and prior to version 2.8.7, due to the use of the object destructuring assignment syntax in the user export code p | Jul 24, 2023 | 9.8 | 29 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (21 CVEs).
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