Description
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can poison the cache for anonymous (i.e. not logged in) users, such that the users are shown the crawler view of the site instead of the HTML page. This can lead to a partial denial-of-service. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Scores
CVSS v3
5.3
EPSS
0.0038
EPSS Percentile
59.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-829
Status
published
Products (2)
discourse/discourse
2.9.0 beta1 (3 CPE variants)
discourse/discourse
< 2.8.3
Published
Apr 14, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026