CVE-2022-39279

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    CVE-2022-39279

    Published: 6 Oct 2022Last Modified: 1 Jul 2025

    Summary:

    Details: discourse-chat is a plugin for the Discourse message board which adds chat functionality. In versions prior to 0.9 some places render a chat channel's name and description in an unsafe way, allowing staff members to cause an cross site scripting (XSS) attack by inserting unsafe HTML into them. Version 0.9 has addressed this issue. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

    References: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/commit/25737733af48e5b9fa60b0561d7fde14bea13cce, https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/security/advisories/GHSA-qp62-8m3c-9jgj

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -25737733af48e5b9fa60b0561d7fde14bea13cce

    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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