BIT-DISCOURSE-2021-43850 Denial of Service in discourse

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions admins users can trigger a Denial of Service attack via the /message-bus/diagnostics path. The impact of this vulnerability is greater on multisite Discourse instances where multiple forums are served from a singl...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-21677 Group advanced search option may leak group and group's members visibility

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Discourse groups can be configured with varying visibility levels for the group as well as the group members. By default, a newly created group has its visibility set to public and the group's members visibility set to public as well. However, a...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-21678 User's bio visible even if profile is restricted in Discourse

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.0.beta11 in the tests-passed branch, version 2.8.0.beta11 in the beta branch, and version 2.7.13 in the stable branch, the bios of users who made their profiles private were still visible in the tags on their users' pages. The...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-21684 User can bypass approval when invited to Discourse

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Versions prior to 2.7.13 in stable, 2.8.0.beta11 in beta, and 2.8.0.beta11 in tests-passed allow some users to log in to a community before they should be able to do so. A user invited via email to a forum with mustapproveusers enabled is going to ...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-23546 Discourse vulnerable to private topic leak via email#send_digest

In version 2.9.0.beta14 of Discourse, an open-source discussion platform, maliciously embedded urls can leak an admin's digest of recent topics, possibly exposing private information. A patch is available for version 2.9.0.beta15. There are no known workarounds for this issue...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-23548

Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the stable branch, parsing posts can be susceptible to regular expression denial of service ReDoS attacks. This issue is patched in version 2.8.14. There are no known workarounds...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-23549 Discourse vulnerable to bypass of post max_length using HTML comments

Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the stable branch and version 2.9.0.beta16 on the beta and tests-passed branches, users can create posts with raw body longer than the maxlength site setting by including html comments that are not counted toward the...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-23641 Denial of Service in Discourse

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 2.8.1 in the stable branch, 2.9.0.beta2 in the beta branch, and 2.9.0.beta2 in the tests-passed branch, users can trigger a Denial of Service attack by posting a streaming URL. Parsing Oneboxes in the background job trigger an...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-24804 Private group name exposure in discourse

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In stable versions prior to 2.8.3 and beta versions prior 2.9.0.beta4 erroneously expose groups. When a group with restricted visibility has been used to set the permissions of a category, the name of the group is leaked to any user...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-24824 Anonymous user cache poisoning in discourse

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can poison the cache for anonymous i.e. not logged in users, such that the users are shown the crawler view of the site instead of the HTML page. This can lead to a partial denial-of-service. This issu...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-24850 Category group permissions leaked in Discourse

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. A category's group permissions settings can be viewed by anyone that has access to the category. As a result, a normal user is able to see whether a group has read/write permissions in the category even though the information should...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-31025 Invite bypasses user approval in Discourse

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Prior to version 2.8.4 on the stable branch and 2.9.0 on the beta and tests-passed branches, inviting users on sites that use single sign-on could bypass the mustapproveusers check and invites by staff are always approved automaticall...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-31096 Invites restricted to an email or invite links restricted to an email domain may be bypassed by a under certain conditions in Discourse

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Under certain conditions, a logged in user can redeem an invite with an email that either doesn't match the invite's email or does not adhere to the email domain restriction of an invite link. The impact of this flaw is aggravated when the invite h...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-31182 Cache poisoning via maliciously-formed request in Discourse

Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a maliciously crafted request for static assets could cause error responses to be cached by Discourse's default NGINX proxy configuration. A corrected NGINX configuration is included in the latest stable, beta and...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-36066 Discourse vulnerable to RCE via admins uploading maliciously zipped file

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 2.8.9 on the stable branch and prior to 2.9.0.beta10 on the beta and tests-passed branches, admins can upload a maliciously crafted Zip or Gzip Tar archive to write files at arbitrary locations and trigger remote code execution...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-37458

Discourse through 2.8.7 allows admins to send invitations to arbitrary email addresses at an unlimited rate...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-39226 Discourse user profile location and website fields were not sufficiently length-limited

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 2.8.9 on the stable branch and prior to 2.9.0.beta10 on the beta and tests-passed branches, a malicious actor can add large payloads of text into the Location and Website fields of a user profile, which causes issues for other...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-39232

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Starting with version 2.9.0.beta5 and prior to version 2.9.0.beta10, an incomplete quote can generate a JavaScript error which will crash the current page in the browser in some cases. Version 2.9.0.beta10 added a fix and tests to ensure incomplete...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-39241 Possible Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in webhooks

Discourse is a platform for community discussion. A malicious admin could use this vulnerability to perform port enumeration on the local host or other hosts on the internal network, as well as against hosts on the Internet. Latest stable, beta, and test-passed versions are now patched. As a...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-39356 Discourse user account takeover via email and invite link

Discourse is a platform for community discussion. Users who receive an invitation link that is not scoped to a single email address can enter any non-admin user's email and gain access to their account when accepting the invitation. All users should upgrade to the latest version. A workaround is...