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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2026-59830 EUVD-2026-84181

Discourse: Stored XSS via unescaped actor name in post actions

Published Sep 21, 2026 · Updated Sep 22, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.7.0, the post action component failed to escape user-controlled display names before interpolating them into an HTML string passed to trustHTML. A user who could choose a crafted display name could persist markup in post action descriptions. Viewing the affected user activity streams could execute attacker-controlled script in another user's browser. This issue is fixed in version 2026.7.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse < 2026.7.0 —

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