Vulnerability · Published Jul 14, 2023 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2023-36466Topic Title Validation Skipped When Changing Category in Discourse

Low 3.5

In plain English

A low-severity improper input validation in discourse from discourse. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 34% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)3.5Low

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 65.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
discourse	discourse	stable < 3.0.5beta < 3.1.0.beta6tests-passed < 3.1.0.beta6

Weakness: CWE-20 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

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