BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-23620 Discourse restricted tag routes leak topic information

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.1 on the stable branch and 3.1.0.beta2 on the beta and tests-passed branches, the contents of latest/top routes for restricted tags can be accessed by unauthorized users. This issue is patched in version 3.0.1 on the stable...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-23621 Discourse vulnerable to ReDoS in user agent parsing

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.1 on the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta2 on the beta and tests-passed branches, a malicious user can cause a regular expression denial of service using a carefully crafted user agent. This issue is patched in version 3.0....

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-23622 Discourse: Presence of read restricted topics may be leaked if tagged with a tag that is visible to all users

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.1 of the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta2 of the beta and tests-passed branches, the count of topics displayed for a tag is a count of all regular topics regardless of whether the topic is in a read restricted category or...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-23624 Discourse's exclude_tags param could leak which topics had a specific hidden tag

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.1 on the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta2 on the beta and tests-passed branches, someone can use the excludetag param to filter out topics and deduce which ones were using a specific hidden tag. This affects any Discourse...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-25167 Regular expression denial of service via installing themes via git in discourse

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a malicious user can cause a regular expression denial of service using a carefully crafted git URL. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There a...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-26040

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Between versions 3.1.0.beta2 and 3.1.0.beta3 of the tests-passed branch, editing or responding to a chat message containing malicious content could lead to a cross-site scripting attack. This issue is patched in version 3.1.0.beta3 of the...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-28107 Discourse vulnerable to multisite DoS by spamming backups

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.2 of the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta3 of the beta and tests-passed branches, a user logged as an administrator can request backups multiple times, which will eat up all the connections to the DB. If this is done on a...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-28440 Denial of service via admin theme import route in Discourse

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions a maliciously crafted request from a Discourse administrator can lead to a long-running request and eventual timeout. This has the greatest potential impact in shared hosting environments where admins are untruste...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-29196 HTML injection via topic embedding in Discourse

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. This vulnerability is not exploitable on the default install of Discourse. A custom feature must be enabled for it to work at all, and the attacker’s payload must pass the CSP to be executed. However, if an attacker succeeds in...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-30606 Multisite denial of service through unsanitized dynamic dispatch to SiteSetting in Discourse

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions a user logged as an administrator can call arbitrary methods on the SiteSetting class, notably clearcache! and notifychanged!, which when done on a multisite instance, can affect the entire cluster resulting in a...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-32061 Discourse Topic Creation Page Allows iFrame Tag without Restrictions

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.4 of the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta5 of the beta and tests-passed branches, the lack of restrictions on the iFrame tag makes it easy for an attacker to exploit the vulnerability and hide subsequent comments from other...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-32301 Discourse's canonical url not being used for topic embeddings

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.4 of the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta5 of the beta and tests-passed branches, multiple duplicate topics could be created if topic embedding is enabled. This issue is patched in version 3.0.4 of the stable branch and...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-34250 Discourse vulnerable to exposure of number of topics recently created in private categories

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.4 of the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta5 of the beta and tests-passed branches, an attacker could use the new topics dismissal endpoint to reveal the number of topics recently created but not the actual content thereof in...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-36466 Topic Title Validation Skipped When Changing Category in Discourse

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. When editing a topic, there is a vulnerability that enables a user to bypass the topic title validations for things like title length, number of emojis in title and blank topic titles. The issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passe...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-36473 CSP nonce reuse vulnerability in Discourse

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. A CSP Content Security Policy nonce reuse vulnerability could allow XSS attacks to bypass CSP protection. There are no known XSS vectors at the moment, but should one be discovered, this vulnerability would allow the XSS attack to completely bypass...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-36818

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a request to create or update custom sidebar section can cause a denial of service. This issue has been patched in commit 52b003d915. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-37467

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.1.0.beta7 of the beta and tests-passed branches, a CSP Content Security Policy nonce reuse vulnerability was discovered could allow cross-site scripting XSS attacks to bypass CSP protection for anonymous i.e. unauthenticated user...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-37904 Discourse Race Condition in Accept Invite

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the beta and tests-passed branches, more users than permitted could be created from invite links. The issue is patched in version 3.0.6 of the stable branch and version...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-37906 Discourse vulnerable to DoS via post edit reason

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the beta and tests-passed branches, a malicious user can edit a post in a topic and cause a DoS with a carefully crafted edit reason. The issue is patched in version 3.0.6 of th...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-38498 Discourse vulnerable to DoS via defer queue

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the beta and tests-passed branches, a malicious user can prevent the defer queue from proceeding promptly on sites hosted in the same multisite installation. The issue is patche...