FKIE_CVE-2022-39279

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-10-06 20:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:58
Severity
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
discourse-chat is a plugin for the Discourse message board which adds chat functionality. In versions prior to 0.9 some places render a chat channel's name and description in an unsafe way, allowing staff members to cause an cross site scripting (XSS) attack by inserting unsafe HTML into them. Version 0.9 has addressed this issue. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/commit/25737733af48e5b9fa60b0561d7fde14bea13ccePatch, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/security/advisories/GHSA-qp62-8m3c-9jgjThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/commit/25737733af48e5b9fa60b0561d7fde14bea13ccePatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/security/advisories/GHSA-qp62-8m3c-9jgjThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
discourse discourse-chat *
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