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.

CVSS v3.0 4.8 MEDIUM

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CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.7 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required HIGH

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/security/advisories/GHSA-3vf2-wrjx-p6xj	Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/pull/1205	Patch Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse-chat:*:*:*:*:*:discourse:*:*

Information

Published : 2022-09-06 13:15

Updated : 2022-09-09 09:32

NVD link : CVE-2022-36057

Mitre link : CVE-2022-36057

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CWE-80

Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)

Products Affected

discourse

discourse-chat

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