CVE-2023-23615

MEDIUM

Discourse < 3.0.0 - Unauthenticated Topic Creation via Embeddable Comments

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3

EPSS 0.0024

EPSS Percentile 47.4%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-284

Status published

Products (5)

discourse/discourse 1.1.0 beta1 (9 CPE variants)

discourse/discourse 1.2.0 beta1 (9 CPE variants)

discourse/discourse 1.3.0 beta1 (11 CPE variants)

discourse/discourse 1.4.0 beta1 (12 CPE variants)

discourse/discourse 1.5.0 beta1 (9 CPE variants)

Published Feb 03, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026