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Medium 4.2
HTML injection via topic embedding in Discourse
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. This vulnerability is not exploitable on the default install of Discourse. A custom feature must be enabled for it to work at all, and the attacker’s payload must pass the CSP to be executed. Howe…
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Medium 5.9
Discourse's SSRF protection missing for some FastImage requests
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.1.0.beta3 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, some user provided URLs were being passed to FastImage without SSRF protection. Insufficient protections could enable attackers to trigger…
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Medium 5.7
Discourse vulnerable to SSRF protection bypass possible with IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.1.0.beta3 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, attackers are able to bypass Discourse's server-side request forgery (SSRF) protection for private IPv4 addresses by using a IPv4-mapped I…
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Medium 4.5
Discourse vulnerable to multisite DoS by spamming backups
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.2 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta3 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a user logged as an administrator can request backups multiple times, which will eat up all the c…
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Medium 4.4
Discourse vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting - user name displayed on post
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.1 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta2 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a maliciously crafted URL can be included in a user's full name field to to carry out cross-site …
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Medium 6.5
Discourse chat messages susceptible to Cross-site Scripting through chat excerpts
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Between versions 3.1.0.beta2 and 3.1.0.beta3 of the `tests-passed` branch, editing or responding to a chat message containing malicious content could lead to a cross-site scripting attack. This issue is patched…
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Medium 4.3
Discourse: Presence of read restricted topics may be leaked if tagged with a tag that is visible to all users
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.1 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta2 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, the count of topics displayed for a tag is a count of all regular topics regardless of whether th…
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Medium 5.3
Discourse tags with no visibility are leaking into og:article:tag
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Tags that are normally private are showing in metadata. This affects any site running the `tests-passed` or `beta` branches >= 3.1.0.beta2. The issue is patched in the latest `beta` and `tests-pas…
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Medium 6.5
Regular expression denial of service via installing themes via git in discourse
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a malicious user can cause a regular expression denial of service using a carefully crafted git URL. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse.…
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Medium 5.3
Malicious users in Discourse can create spam topics as any user due to improper access control
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. The embeddable comments can be exploited to create new topics as any user but without any clear title or content. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. As a wo…
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Medium 4.3
Discourse's exclude_tags param could leak which topics had a specific hidden tag
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.1 on the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta2 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, someone can use the `exclude_tag param` to filter out topics and deduce which ones were using a s…
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Medium 4.3
Discourse vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits via Chat drafts
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Versions prior to 3.1.0.beta1 (beta) (tests-passed) are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits. Users can create chat drafts of an unlimited length, which can cause a denial of servi…
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Medium 5.3
Discourse restricted tag routes leak topic information
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.1 on the `stable` branch and 3.1.0.beta2 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, the contents of latest/top routes for restricted tags can be accessed by unauthorized users. This issue i…
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Medium 6.5
Discourse subject to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Versions prior to 3.0.1 (stable), 3.1.0.beta2 (beta), and 3.1.0.beta2 (tests-passed) are subject to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. As there is no limit on data contained in …
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Medium 6.8
Discourse vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting through tag descriptions
Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the `stable` branch and version 3.0.0.beta16 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, tag descriptions, which can be updated by moderators, can be used for cross-site scripting at…
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Medium 5.3
Discourse vulnerable to exposure of user post counts per topic to unauthorized users
Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the `stable` branch and version 3.0.0.beta16 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, the number of times a user posted in an arbitrary topic is exposed to unauthorized users thro…
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Medium 5.7
Discourse password reset link can lead to in account takeover if user changes to a new email
Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the `stable` branch and version 3.0.0.beta16 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, when a user requests for a password reset link email, then changes their primary email, the o…
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Medium 5.5
Discourse vulnerable to private topic leak via email#send_digest
In version 2.9.0.beta14 of Discourse, an open-source discussion platform, maliciously embedded urls can leak an admin's digest of recent topics, possibly exposing private information. A patch is available for version 2.9.0.beta15. There are no known workaroun…
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Medium 6.5
Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the `stable` branch and version 2.9.0.bet…
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Medium 5.7
Discourse vulnerable to bypass of post max_length using HTML comments
Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the `stable` branch and version 2.9.0.beta16 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, users can create posts with raw body longer than the `max_length` site setting by including h…
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Medium 5.0
Arbitrary HTML injection in discourse-mermaid-theme-component
Discourse Mermaid (discourse-mermaid-theme-component) allows users of Discourse, open-source forum software, to create graphs using the Mermaid syntax. Users of discourse-mermaid-theme-component version 1.0.0 who can create posts are able to inject arbitrary …
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Medium 4.3
Any authenticated Discourse user can create an unlisted topic
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. In version 2.8.13 and prior on the `stable` branch and version 2.9.0.beta14 and prior on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, any authenticated user can create an unlisted topic. These topics, which are not …
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Medium 4.3
Discourse may allow exposure of hidden tags in the subject of notification emails
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.13 of the `stable` branch and version 2.9.0.beta14 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, unauthorized users may learn of the existence of hidden tags and that they have been applied to…
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Medium 6.5
Users erroneously and transparently added to private messages in Discourse
Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In some rare cases users redeeming an invitation can be added as a participant to several private message topics that they should not be added to. They are not notified of this, it happens transparently in …
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Medium 4.3
Discourse-calendar exposes members of hidden groups
Discourse-calendar is a plugin for the Discourse messaging platform which adds the ability to create a dynamic calendar in the first post of a topic. Members of private groups or public groups with private members can be listed by users, who can create and ed…
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Medium 5.3
Displaying user badges can leak topic titles to users that have no access to the topic
Discourse is a platform for community discussion. Under certain conditions, a user badge may have been awarded based on a user's activity in a topic with restricted access. Before this vulnerability was disclosed, the topic title of the topic associated with …
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Medium 5.4
Arbitrary HTML injection in table-of-contents theme component in DiscoTOC
DiscoTOC is a Discourse theme component that generates a table of contents for topics. Users that can create topics in TOC-enabled categories (and have sufficient trust level - configured in component's settings) are able to inject arbitrary HTML on that topi…
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Medium 4.3
Discourse-chat plugin susceptible to XSS in channel name and description
discourse-chat is a plugin for the Discourse message board which adds chat functionality. In versions prior to 0.9 some places render a chat channel's name and description in an unsafe way, allowing staff members to cause an cross site scripting (XSS) attack …
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Medium 6.5
Discourse vulnerable to incomplete quote causing a topic to crash in the browser
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Starting with version 2.9.0.beta5 and prior to version 2.9.0.beta10, an incomplete quote can generate a JavaScript error which will crash the current page in the browser in some cases. Version 2.9.0.beta10 adde…
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Medium 4.3
Discourse user profile location and website fields were not sufficiently length-limited
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 2.8.9 on the `stable` branch and prior to 2.9.0.beta10 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a malicious actor can add large payloads of text into the Location and Website fields of a …
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Medium 5.4
Discourse-Chat Cross-Site Scripting issue for channel names and descriptions
Discourse-Chat is an asynchronous messaging plugin for the Discourse open-source discussion platform. Users of Discourse Chat can be affected by admin users inserting HTML into chat titles and descriptions, causing a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack. Version…
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Medium 6.5
Email activation route can be abused by spammers in Discourse
Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In affected versions an email activation route can be abused to send mass spam emails. A fix has been included in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse which rate limits emails. Use…
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Medium 5.3
Cache poisoning via maliciously-formed request in Discourse
Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a maliciously crafted request for static assets could cause error responses to be cached by Discourse's default NGINX proxy configuration. A corrected NGINX configuration is included in…
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Medium 5.7
Invites restricted to an email or invite links restricted to an email domain may be bypassed by a under certain conditions in Discourse
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Under certain conditions, a logged in user can redeem an invite with an email that either doesn't match the invite's email or does not adhere to the email domain restriction of an invite link. The impact of thi…
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Medium 4.3
Exposure of Sensitive Information in discourse-chat
discourse-chat is a chat plugin for the Discourse application. Versions prior to 0.4 are vulnerable to an exposure of sensitive information, where an attacker who knows the message ID for a channel they do not have access to can view that message using the ch…
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Medium 5.3
Banner topic data is exposed on login-required Discourse sites
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.4 in the `stable` branch and version `2.9.0.beta5` in the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, banner topic data is exposed on login-required sites. This issue is patched in version 2.8.4 in…
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Medium 6.5
Discourse Calendar Event names susceptible to Cross-site Scripting
Discourse Calendar is a calendar plugin for Discourse, an open-source messaging app. Prior to version 1.0.1, parsing and rendering of Event names can be susceptible to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This vulnerability only affects sites which have modifi…
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Medium 4.3
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Discourse Assign
Discourse Assign is a plugin for assigning users to a topic in Discourse, an open-source messaging platform. Prior to version 1.0.1, the UserBookmarkSerializer serialized the whole User / Group object, which leaked some private information. The data was only …
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Medium 5.3
Category group permissions leaked in Discourse
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. A category's group permissions settings can be viewed by anyone that has access to the category. As a result, a normal user is able to see whether a group has read/write permissions in the categor…
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Medium 5.3
Anonymous user cache poisoning in discourse
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can poison the cache for anonymous (i.e. not logged in) users, such that the users are shown the crawler view of the site instead of the HTML page. This can lead t…