CVE-2023-23615 — Malicious users in Discourse can create spam topics as any user due to improper access control

CVE-2023-23615

Malicious users in Discourse can create spam topics as any user due to improper access control PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. The embeddable comments can be exploited to create new topics as any user but without any clear title or content. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. As a workaround, disable embeddable comments by deleting all embeddable hosts.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
discourse / discourse	affected < 3.0.1; affected < 3.1.0.beta2

CWE

CWE-284

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-7mf3-5v84-wxq8

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-7mf3-5v84-wxq8

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.