CVE-2022-36057

Discourse-Chat Cross-Site Scripting issue for channel names and descriptions

CVSS 5.4 MEDIUMEPSS 0.4%CWE-79 CWE-80

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 5.4EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

06 Sep 2022Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

discourse · discourse-chat

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References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/pull/1205 https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/security/advisories/GHSA-3vf2-wrjx-p6xj