CVE-2022-23549

Published: Jan 5, 2023

Modified: Mar 10, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.7

MEDIUM

Description

Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the `stable` branch and version 2.9.0.beta16 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, users can create posts with raw body longer than the `max_length` site setting by including html comments that are not counted toward the character limit. This issue is patched in versions 2.8.14 and 2.9.0.beta16. There are no known workarounds.

Vendor	Product	Versions
discourse	discourse	affected `2.8.14 - < 2.8.14` affected `2.9.0.beta0 - <= 2.9.0.beta0` affected `2.9.0.beta16 - < 2.9.0.beta16`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/bf6b08670a927cc80bb090b7a2e710b4b554e6a8

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-p47g-v5wr-p4xp

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CVE-2022-23549

Description

Affected Products

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

References