CVE-2025-22601

Client Side Path Traversal using activate account route in Discourse

State: Published
Severity: 3.1 Low
Published: Feb 4, 2025
Updated: Feb 11, 2025
Reserved: Jan 7, 2025

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can trick a target user to make changes to their own username via carefully crafted link using the `activate-account` route. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
discoursediscourse	beta: <= 3.4.0.beta3Affected tests-passed: <= 3.4.0.beta3Affected

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-gvpp-v7mp-wxxw

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