CVE-2022-36057 (GCVE-0-2022-36057)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-06 19:30 – Updated: 2025-04-23 17:14
VLAI?
Title
Discourse-Chat Cross-Site Scripting issue for channel names and descriptions
Summary
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.
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-80 - Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
discourse discourse-chat Affected: < 0.9
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