CVE-2025-53532CWE-285

giscus allows unauthorized discussion creation

Medium · published July 7, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
23.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

giscus is a commenting system powered by GitHub Discussions. A bug in giscus' discussions creation API allowed an unauthorized user to create discussions on any repository where giscus is installed. This affects the server-side part of giscus, which is provided via http://giscus.app or your own self-hosted service. This vulnerability is fixed by the c43af7806e65adfcf4d0feeebef76dc36c95cb9a and 4b9745fe1a326ce08d69f8a388331bc993d19389 commits.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00313 · 23.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-285 · Improper Authorization
Published
2025-07-07T17:06Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 JUL 17:06Z
    giscus allows unauthorized discussion creation
    cvelistv5