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...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-39378 Displaying user badges can leak topic titles to users that have no access to the topic

Discourse is a platform for community discussion. Under certain conditions, a user badge may have been awarded based on a user's activity in a topic with restricted access. Before this vulnerability was disclosed, the topic title of the topic associated with the user badge may be viewed by any...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-39385 Users erroneously and transparently added to private messages in Discourse

Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In some rare cases users redeeming an invitation can be added as a participant to several private message topics that they should not be added to. They are not notified of this, it happens transparently in the background. This issue has been...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-41944 Discourse users can see notifications for topics they no longer have access to

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. In stable versions prior to 2.8.12 and beta or tests-passed versions prior to 2.9.0.beta.13, under certain conditions, a user can see notifications for topics they no longer have access to. If there is sensitive information in the topic title, it...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-46148 Discourse allows self-XSS through malicious composer message

Discourse is an open-source messaging platform. In versions 2.8.10 and prior on the stable branch and versions 2.9.0.beta11 and prior on the beta and tests-passed branches, users composing malicious messages and navigating to drafts page could self-XSS. This vulnerability can lead to a full XSS o...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-46168 Group SMTP user emails are exposed in CC email header

Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the stable branch and version 2.9.0.beta15 on the beta and tests-passed branches, recipients of a group SMTP email could see the email addresses of all other users inside the group SMTP topic. Most of the time this is n...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-46177 Discourse password reset link can lead to in account takeover if user changes to a new email

Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the stable branch and version 3.0.0.beta16 on the beta and tests-passed branches, when a user requests for a password reset link email, then changes their primary email, the old reset email is still valid. When the old...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-22453 Discourse vulnerable to exposure of user post counts per topic to unauthorized users

Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the stable branch and version 3.0.0.beta16 on the beta and tests-passed branches, the number of times a user posted in an arbitrary topic is exposed to unauthorized users through the /u/username.json endpoint. The issue...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-22454 Discourse vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting through pending post titles descriptions

Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the stable branch and version 3.0.0.beta16 on the beta and tests-passed branches, pending post titles can be used for cross-site scripting attacks. Pending posts can be created by unprivileged users when a category has...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-22455 Discourse vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting through tag descriptions

Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the stable branch and version 3.0.0.beta16 on the beta and tests-passed branches, tag descriptions, which can be updated by moderators, can be used for cross-site scripting attacks. This vulnerability can lead to a full...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-22468 Discourse vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in local oneboxes

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Versions prior to 2.8.13 stable, 3.0.0.beta16 beta and 3.0.0 tests-passed, are vulnerable to cross-site Scripting. A maliciously crafted URL can be included in a post to carry out cross-site scripting attacks on sites with disabled or...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-22739 Discourse subject to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Versions prior to 3.0.1 stable, 3.1.0.beta2 beta, and 3.1.0.beta2 tests-passed are subject to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. As there is no limit on data contained in a draft, a malicious user can create an...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2023-22740 Discourse vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits via Chat drafts

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Versions prior to 3.1.0.beta1 beta tests-passed are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits. Users can create chat drafts of an unlimited length, which can cause a denial of service by generating an excessive load on the...