CVE-2022-39279

Discourse-chat plugin susceptible to XSS in channel name and description

State
Published
Severity
4.3 Medium
Published
Oct 6, 2022
Updated
Apr 23, 2025
Reserved
Sep 2, 2022

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Description

discourse-chat is a plugin for the Discourse message board which adds chat functionality. In versions prior to 0.9 some places render a chat channel's name and description in an unsafe way, allowing staff members to cause an cross site scripting (XSS) attack by inserting unsafe HTML into them. Version 0.9 has addressed this issue. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • 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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