CVE-2025-22601 — Client Side Path Traversal using activate account route in Discourse

CVE-2025-22601

Client Side Path Traversal using activate account route in Discourse PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can trick a target user to make changes to their own username via carefully crafted link using the `activate-account` route. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
discourse / discourse	affected beta: <= 3.4.0.beta3; affected tests-passed: <= 3.4.0.beta3

CWE

CWE-22

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-gvpp-v7mp-wxxw

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

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