BIT-discourse-2023-36466

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    BIT-discourse-2023-36466

    Published: 6 Mar 2024Last Modified: 8 Sept 2026

    Summary: Topic Title Validation Skipped When Changing Category in Discourse

    Details: Discourse is an open source discussion platform. When editing a topic, there is a vulnerability that enables a user to bypass the topic title validations for things like title length, number of emojis in title and blank topic titles. The issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed version of Discourse.

    References: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-4hjh-wg43-p932, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36466

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: discourse

    Purl: pkg:bitnami/discourse

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.0.5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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