CVE-2025-67723

Discourse vulnerable to stored Cross-site Scripting via Katex in discourse-math plugin

State: Published
Severity: 4.6 Medium
Published: Jan 28, 2026
Updated: Jan 28, 2026
Reserved: Dec 10, 2025

Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0 have a content-security-policy-mitigated cross-site scriptinv vulnerability on the Discourse Math plugin when using its KaTeX variant. This issue is patched in versions 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0. As a workaround, the Discourse Math plugin can be disabled, or the Mathjax provider can be used instead of KaTeX.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.6 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

Product	Versions
discoursediscourse	< 3.5.4Affected >= 2025.11.0-latest, < 2025.11.2Affected >= 2025.12.0-latest, < 2025.12.1Affected >= 2026.1.0-latest, < 2026.1.0Affected

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-955h-m28g-5379

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