CVE-2021-43793

Bypass of Poll voting limits in Discourse

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: Dec 1, 2021
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Nov 16, 2021

Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a vulnerability in the Polls feature allowed users to vote multiple times in a single-option poll. The problem is patched in the latest tests-passed, beta and stable versions of Discourse

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
discoursediscourse	stable < 2.7.11Affected tests-passed < 2.8.0.beta9Affected

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-jq7h-44vc-h6qx
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0c6b9df77bac9c6f7c7e2eadf6fe100064afdeab
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/1d0faedfbc3a8b77b971dc70d25e30791dbb6e0b

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