CVE-2023-45147CWE-200

Arbitrary keys can be added to a topic's custom fields by any user in Discourse

Medium · published October 16, 2023

CVSS v3.1
4.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
23.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Discourse is an open source community platform. In affected versions any user can create a topic and add arbitrary custom fields to a topic. The severity of this vulnerability depends on what plugins are installed and how the plugins uses topic custom fields. For a default Discourse installation with the default plugins, this vulnerability has no impact. The problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to update to version 3.1.1 if they are on the stable branch or 3.2.0.beta2 if they are on the beta branch. Users unable to upgrade should disable any plugins that access topic custom fields.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00319 · 23.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Published
2023-10-16T20:26Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 OCT 20:26Z
    Arbitrary keys can be added to a topic's custom fields by any user in Discourse
    cvelistv5