CVE-2023-43657 (GCVE-0-2023-43657)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-28 18:04 – Updated: 2024-09-23 18:21
VLAI
Title
Improper escaping of encrypted topic titles can lead to Cross-site Scripting under non-default site configuration
Summary
discourse-encrypt is a plugin that provides a secure communication channel through Discourse. Improper escaping of encrypted topic titles could lead to a cross site scripting (XSS) issue when a site has content security policy (CSP) headers disabled. Having CSP disabled is a non-default configuration, and having it disabled with discourse-encrypt installed will result in a warning in the Discourse admin dashboard. This has been fixed in commit `9c75810af9` which is included in the latest version of the discourse-encrypt plugin. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should ensure that CSP headers are enabled and properly configured.
Severity
7.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
discourse discourse-encrypt Affected: <= c492904c
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discourse discourse-encrypt Affected: 0 , ≤ c492904c (git)
    cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse-encrypt:-:*:*:*:*:discourse:*:*
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