CVE-2023-36466

Topic Title Validation Skipped When Changing Category in Discourse

State: Published
Severity: 3.5 Low
Published: Jul 14, 2023
Updated: Oct 22, 2024
Reserved: Jun 21, 2023

Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. When editing a topic, there is a vulnerability that enables a user to bypass the topic title validations for things like title length, number of emojis in title and blank topic titles. The issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed version of Discourse.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	3.5 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
discoursediscourse	stable < 3.0.5Affected beta < 3.1.0.beta6Affected tests-passed < 3.1.0.beta6Affected

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-4hjh-wg43-p932

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