CVE-2022-36057

Published: Sep 6, 2022

Modified: Apr 23, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.4

MEDIUM

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
discourse	discourse-chat	affected `< 0.9`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-80

CWE-79

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/security/advisories/GHSA-3vf2-wrjx-p6xj

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/pull/1205

x_refsource_MISC

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CVE-2022-36057

Description

Affected Products

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

References