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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2022-39226 EUVD-2022-41756

Discourse user profile location and website fields were not sufficiently length-limited

Published Sep 29, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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 user profile, which causes issues for other users when loading that profile. A fix to limit the length of user input for these fields is included in version 2.8.9 on the `stable` branch and version 2.9.0.beta10 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches. There are no known workarounds.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse < 2.8.9, >= 2.9.0.beta0, < 2.9.0.beta10 —

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