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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2023-23615 EUVD-2023-27711

Malicious users in Discourse can create spam topics as any user due to improper access control

Published Feb 3, 2023 · Updated Mar 10, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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 workaround, disable embeddable comments by deleting all embeddable hosts.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse < 3.0.1, < 3.1.0.beta2 —

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