Medium severity · published Sep 28, 2023
CVE-2023-43657
discourse-encrypt is a plugin that provides a secure communication channel through Discourse
6.1
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 48% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DI
Discourse-encrypt · Discourse
before 2023-09-28 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-43657
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-43657
Product
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP
Patch
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-encrypt/commit/9c75810af9a474d7edaec67dea66f852c0ba1f4e
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-encrypt/security/advisories/GHSA-5fh6-wp7p-xx7v
