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High · 7.2 CVE-2023-43657 EUVD-2023-48046

Improper escaping of encrypted topic titles can lead to Cross-site Scripting under non-default site configuration

Published Sep 28, 2023 · Updated Sep 23, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

discourse-encrypt is a plugin that provides a secure communication channel through Discourse. Improper escaping of encrypted topic titles could lead to a cross site scripting (XSS) issue when a site has content security policy (CSP) headers disabled. Having CSP disabled is a non-default configuration, and having it disabled with discourse-encrypt installed will result in a warning in the Discourse admin dashboard. This has been fixed in commit `9c75810af9` which is included in the latest version of the discourse-encrypt plugin. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should ensure that CSP headers are enabled and properly configured.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse-encrypt <= c492904c —

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