CVE-2022-31184
Email activation route can be abused by spammers in Discourse
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.5 Medium
- Published
- Aug 1, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 23, 2025
- Reserved
- May 18, 2022
Description
Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In affected versions an email activation route can be abused to send mass spam emails. A fix has been included in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse which rate limits emails. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should manually rate limit email.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
discoursediscourse |
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References
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