CVE-2022-46162

Discourse BBCode plugin vulnerable to arbitrary CSS injection

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Nov 30, 2022
Updated
Apr 22, 2025
Reserved
Nov 28, 2022

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Description

discourse-bbcode is the official BBCode plugin for Discourse. Prior to commit 91478f5, CSS injection can occur when rendering content generated with the discourse-bccode plugin. This vulnerability only affects sites which have the discourse-bbcode plugin installed and enabled. This issue is patched in commit 91478f5. As a workaround, ensure that the Content Security Policy is enabled and monitor any posts that contain bbcode.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
discourse-bbcodediscourse
  • < 91478f5cfecdcc43cf85b997168a8ecfd0f8df90Affected

References

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