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Medium · 6.8 CVE-2023-22455 EUVD-2023-26617

Discourse vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting through tag descriptions

Published Jan 5, 2023 · Updated Mar 10, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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 attacks. This vulnerability can lead to a full XSS on sites which have modified or disabled Discourse’s default Content Security Policy. Versions 2.8.14 and 3.0.0.beta16 contain a patch.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse < 2.8.14, >= 2.9.0.beta0, < 3.0.0.beta16 —

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