CVE-2022-21642

Published: Jan 5, 2022

Modified: Apr 23, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

4.3

MEDIUM

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions when composing a message from topic the composer user suggestions reveals whisper participants. The issue has been patched in stable version 2.7.13 and beta version 2.8.0.beta11. There is no workaround for this issue and users are advised to upgrade.

Vendor	Product	Versions
discourse	discourse	affected `< 2.7.13` affected `< 2.8.0.beta11`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-200

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

None

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-mx3h-vc7w-r9c6

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/702685b6a06ae45a544fc702027f1e4573d94aaa

x_refsource_MISC

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CVE-2022-21642

Description

Affected Products

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

References