Discourse-Chat Cross-Site Scripting issue for channel names and descriptions
CVE-2022-36057

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Discourse
Status
Discourse-chat
Vendor
CVE Published:
6 September 2022

What is CVE-2022-36057?

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 Version(s)

discourse-chat < 0.9

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/security/advi...
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/pull/1205
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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