Riskcovery

CVE-2022-36057

Discourse-Chat Cross-Site Scripting issue for channel names and descriptions

State
Published
Severity
5.4 Medium
Published
Sep 6, 2022
Updated
Apr 23, 2025
Reserved
Jul 15, 2022

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Description

Discourse-Chat is an asynchronous messaging plugin for the Discourse open-source discussion platform. Users of Discourse Chat can be affected by admin users inserting HTML into chat titles and descriptions, causing a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack. Version 0.9 contains a patch for this issue.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
discourse-chatdiscourse
  • < 0.9Affected

References

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