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  • Medium 6.3

    Discourse has an XSS via Onebox system

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to 3.2.3 and 3.3.0.beta3, improperly sanitized Onebox data could lead to an XSS vulnerability in some situations. This vulnerability only affects Discourse instances which have disabled the default Conten…

  • Medium 4.9

    Denial of service via Watched Words in Discourse

    Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions by creating replacement words with an almost unlimited number of characters, a moderator can reduce the availability of a Discourse instance. This issue has been addressed in …

  • Medium 6.4

    Discourse vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery via FastImage

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.2.3 on the `stable` branch and version 3.3.0.beta4 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a malicious actor could get the FastImage library to redirect requests to an internal Discourse I…

  • Medium 4.9

    Discourse missing authorization checks for suspending admins/moderators

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.2.3 on the `stable` branch, version 3.3.0.beta3 on the `beta` branch, and version 3.3.0.beta4-dev on the `tests-passed` branch, a rogue staff user could suspend other staff users preventing t…

  • Medium 4.2

    Discourse vulnerable to stored-dom XSS via Facebook Oneboxes

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.2.3 on the `stable` branch and version 3.3.0.beta3 on the `tests-passed` branch, an attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript on users’ browsers by posting a specific URL containing malicious…

  • Medium 4.3

    WordPress WP Discourse plugin <= 2.5.1 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

    Missing Authorization vulnerability in Discourse WP Discourse.This issue affects WP Discourse: from n/a through 2.5.1.

  • Medium 4.3

    Discourse-reactions' reaction data and public topic whisper content exposed on reactions given user activity page

    Discourse-reactions is a plugin that allows user to add their reactions to the post. When whispers are enabled on a site via `whispers_allowed_groups` and reactions are made on whispers on public topics, the contents of the whisper and the reaction data are s…

  • Medium 6.5

    Denial of service through invites in Discourse

    Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions users that are allowed to invite others can inject arbitrarily large data in parameters used in the invite route. The problem has been patched in the latest version of Discour…

  • Medium 6.5

    Denial of service via Staff Actions in Discourse

    Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions the endpoints for suspending users, silencing users and exporting CSV files weren't enforcing limits on the sizes of the parameters that they accept. This could lead to excess…

  • Medium 5.3

    Disclosure of the existence of secret categories with custom backgrounds in Discourse

    Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can learn that secret categories exist when they have backgrounds set. The issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed version of Discourse. Users…

  • Medium 5.3

    Disclosure of the existence of secret subcategories in Discourse

    Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can learn that a secret subcategory exists under a public category which has no public subcategories. The issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-pas…

  • Medium 5.3

    No rate limits on POST /uploads endpoint in Discourse

    Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Without a rate limit on the POST /uploads endpoint, it makes it easier for an attacker to carry out a DoS attack on the server since creating an upload can be a resource intensive process. Do note…

  • Medium 4.3

    User can see invitees in events created in PMs and private categories

    Discourse Calendar adds the ability to create a dynamic calendar in the first post of a topic on the open-source discussion platform Discourse. Prior to version 0.4, event invitees created in topics in private categories or PMs (private messages) can be retri…

  • Medium 4.1

    discourse-ai admin-initiated SSRF when interacting with AI services

    discourse-ai is the AI plugin for the open-source discussion platform Discourse. Prior to commit 94ba0dadc2cf38e8f81c3936974c167219878edd, interactions with different AI services are vulnerable to admin-initiated SSRF attacks. Versions of the plugin that incl…

  • Medium 6.5

    Uninvited user is able to join and mark the attendance of the the private event

    Discourse Calendar adds the ability to create a dynamic calendar in the first post of a topic on Discourse. Uninvited users are able to gain access to private events by crafting a request to update their attendance. This problem is resolved in commit dfc4fa15…

  • Medium 4.3

    discourse-group-membership-ip-block is exposing potentially sensitive custom fields

    discourse-group-membership-ip-block is a discourse plugin that adds support for adding users to groups based on their IP address. discourse-group-membership-ip-block was sending all group custom fields to the client, including group custom fields from other p…

  • Medium 6.3

    Discourse improperly sanitized user input leads to XSS

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Improperly sanitized user input could lead to an XSS vulnerability in some situations. This vulnerability only affects Discourse instances which have disabled the default Content Security Policy. The vulnerabil…

  • Medium 4.3

    Insufficient control of custom field value sizes

    Discourse is a platform for community discussion. For fields that are client editable, limits on sizes are not imposed. This allows a malicious actor to cause a Discourse instance to use excessive disk space and also often excessive bandwidth. The issue is pa…

  • Medium 5.3
    CVE-2023-47119 Public exploit

    HTML injection in oneboxed links

    Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Prior to version 3.1.3 of the `stable` branch and version 3.2.0.beta3 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, some links can inject arbitrary HTML tags when rendered through our Onebox engine. …

  • Medium 4.3

    Bypassing height value allowed in some theme components

    Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Prior to version 3.1.3 of the `stable` branch and version 3.2.0.beta3 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, some theme components allow users to add svgs with unlimited `height` attributes, a…

  • Medium 4.3
    CVE-2023-45806 Public exploit

    Discourse vulnerable to DoS via Regexp Injection in Full Name

    Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Prior to version 3.1.3 of the `stable` branch and version 3.2.0.beta3 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, if a user has been quoted and uses a `|` in their full name, they might be able to …

  • Medium 5.3

    Prevent unauthorized access to summary details in Discourse

    Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. User summaries are accessible for anonymous users even when `hide_user_profiles_from_public` is enabled. This problem has been patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 version of Discourse. Use…

  • Medium 4.9

    Arbitrary keys can be added to a topic's custom fields by any user in Discourse

    Discourse is an open source community platform. In affected versions any user can create a topic and add arbitrary custom fields to a topic. The severity of this vulnerability depends on what plugins are installed and how the plugins uses topic custom fields.…

  • Medium 4.1

    Discourse-Jira could make SSRF attack by setting Jira URL to an arbitrary location

    Discourse-jira is a Discourse plugin allows Jira projects, issue types, fields and field options will be synced automatically. An administrator user can make an SSRF attack by setting the Jira URL to an arbitrary location and enabling the `discourse_jira_verb…

  • Medium 6.5

    Discourse DoS via SvgSprite cache

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.1.1 of the `stable` branch and version 3.2.0.beta1 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a malicious admin could create extremely large icons sprites, which would then be cached in each …

  • Medium 4.9

    Discourse DoS via remote theme assets

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.1.1 of the `stable` branch and version 3.2.0.beta1 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, importing a remote theme loads their assets into memory without enforcing limits for file size or…

  • Medium 6.5

    Discourse DoS via 2FA and Security Key Names

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.1.1 of the `stable` branch and version 3.2.0.beta1 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a malicious user could add a 2FA or security key with a carefully crafted name to their account a…

  • Medium 6.5

    Discourse vulnerable to DoS via drafts

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.1.1 of the `stable` branch and version 3.2.0.beta1 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a malicious user can create an unlimited number of drafts with very long draft keys which may end…

  • Medium 4.3

    Discourse's restricted tag information visible to unauthenticated users

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, information about restricted-visibility topic tags could be obtained by unauthorized users. The i…

  • Medium 5.3

    Discourse vulnerable to ossible DDoS due to unbounded limits in various controller actions

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, in multiple controller actions, Discourse accepts limit params but does not impose any upper boun…

  • Medium 4.3

    Discourse vulnerable to DoS via defer queue

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a malicious user can prevent the defer queue from proceeding promptly on sites hosted in the same…

  • Medium 4.3

    Discourse vulnerable to DoS via post edit reason

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a malicious user can edit a post in a topic and cause a DoS with a carefully crafted edit reason.…

  • Medium 6.8

    Discourse CSP nonce reuse vulnerability for anonymous users

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.1.0.beta7 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a CSP (Content Security Policy) nonce reuse vulnerability was discovered could allow cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks to bypass CSP prot…

  • Medium 6.5

    Denial of service via User Custom Sidebar Section Unlimited Link Creation in discourse

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a request to create or update custom sidebar section can cause a denial of service. This issue has been patched in commit `52b003d915`. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known work…

  • Medium 6.8

    CSP nonce reuse vulnerability in Discourse

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. A CSP (Content Security Policy) nonce reuse vulnerability could allow XSS attacks to bypass CSP protection. There are no known XSS vectors at the moment, but should one be discovered, this vulnerability would a…

  • Medium 4.8

    Discourse vulnerable to exposure of number of topics recently created in private categories

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.4 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta5 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, an attacker could use the new topics dismissal endpoint to reveal the number of topics recently c…

  • Medium 5.4

    Discourse Topic Creation Page Allows iFrame Tag without Restrictions

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.4 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta5 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, the lack of restrictions on the iFrame tag makes it easy for an attacker to exploit the vulnerabi…

  • Medium 4.3

    Reaction metadata exposed in private topics in Discourse-reactions

    Discourse-reactions is a plugin that allows user to add their reactions to the post in the Discourse messaging platform. In affected versions data about what reactions were performed on a post in a private topic could be leaked. This issue has been addressed …

  • Medium 4.2

    Multisite denial of service through unsanitized dynamic dispatch to SiteSetting in Discourse

    Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions a user logged as an administrator can call arbitrary methods on the `SiteSetting` class, notably `#clear_cache!` and `#notify_changed!`, which when done on a multisite instanc…

  • Medium 5.4

    Stored Cross-site Scripting via improper sanitization of svg files in Discourse

    Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Due to the improper sanitization of SVG files, an attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript on the users’ browsers by uploading a crafted SVG file. This issue is patched in the latest stable and t…