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High · 8.9 CVE-2022-39356 EUVD-2022-41823

Discourse user account takeover via email and invite link

Published Nov 2, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Discourse is a platform for community discussion. Users who receive an invitation link that is not scoped to a single email address can enter any non-admin user's email and gain access to their account when accepting the invitation. All users should upgrade to the latest version. A workaround is temporarily disabling invitations with `SiteSetting.max_invites_per_day = 0` or scope them to individual email addresses.

Affected products

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

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