Vulnerability · Published Sep 6, 2022 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2022-36057Discourse-Chat Cross-Site Scripting issue for channel names and descriptions
Medium 5.4
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in discourse-chat from discourse. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 43% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.4Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 56.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
Discourse-Chat is an asynchronous messaging plugin for the Discourse open-source discussion platform. Users of Discourse Chat can be affected by admin users inserting HTML into chat titles and descriptions, causing a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack. Version 0.9 contains a patch for this issue.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| discourse | discourse-chat | < 0.9 |
Weakness: CWE-80, CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
References
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/security/advisories/GHSA-3vf2-wrjx-p6xj x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/pull/1205 x_refsource_MISC