CVE-2024-43408 (GCVE-0-2024-43408)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-20 16:28 – Updated: 2024-09-03 14:56
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Title
Discourse Placeholder Forms has a XSS stopped by CSP
Summary
Discourse Placeholder Forms will let you build dynamic documentation. Unsanitized and stored user input was injected in the html of the post. The vulnerability is fixed in commit a62f711d5600e4e5d86f342d52932cb6221672e7.
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
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-placeholder-theme-component Affected: < a62f711d5600e4e5d86f342d52932cb6221672e7
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