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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2022-31184 EUVD-2022-52780

Email activation route can be abused by spammers in Discourse

Published Aug 1, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should manually rate limit email.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse < 2.8.7, < 2.9.0.beta8 —

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