CVE-2023-30538

Stored Cross-site Scripting via improper sanitization of svg files in Discourse

State: Published
Severity: 5.4 Medium
Published: Apr 18, 2023
Updated: Feb 6, 2025
Reserved: Apr 12, 2023

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Due to the improper sanitization of SVG files, an attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript on the users’ browsers by uploading a crafted SVG file. This issue is patched in the latest stable and tests-passed versions of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. For users unable to upgrade there are two possible workarounds: enable CDN handing of uploads (and ensure the CDN sanitizes SVG files) or disable SVG file uploads by ensuring that the `authorized extensions` site setting does not include `svg` (or reset that setting to the default, by default Discourse doesn't enable SVG uploads by users).

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
discoursediscourse	stable: < 3.0.3Affected beta: < 3.1.0.beta4Affected

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-w5mv-4pjf-xj43

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