Medium severity · published Sep 6, 2022
CVE-2022-36057
Discourse-Chat is an asynchronous messaging plugin for the Discourse open-source discussion platform
4.8
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 42% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DI
Discourse-chat · Discourse
before 0.9 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-36057
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-36057
Patch
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/pull/1205
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/security/advisories/GHSA-3vf2-wrjx-p6xj
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