Vulnerability · Published Oct 1, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2025-59337Discourse: Cross-Site Data Exposure via Backup Restore Metacommand Injection in Multisite Deployments
Medium 5.5
In plain English
A medium-severity command injection 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 0.3% (higher than 22% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 4.0)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 77.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
Discourse is an open-source community discussion platform. In versions 3.5.0 and below, malicious meta-commands could be embedded in a backup dump and executed during restore. In multisite setups, this allowed an admin of one site to access data or credentials from other sites. This issue is fixed in version 3.5.1.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-77 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H