CVE-2023-45147
MEDIUMDiscourse < 3.1.1 - Exposure of Sensitive Information via Topic Custom Fields
Title source: llmDescription
Discourse is an open source community platform. In affected versions any user can create a topic and add arbitrary custom fields to a topic. The severity of this vulnerability depends on what plugins are installed and how the plugins uses topic custom fields. For a default Discourse installation with the default plugins, this vulnerability has no impact. The problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to update to version 3.1.1 if they are on the stable branch or 3.2.0.beta2 if they are on the beta branch. Users unable to upgrade should disable any plugins that access topic custom fields.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-wm89-m359-f9qv
Scores
CVSS v3
4.9
EPSS
0.0022
EPSS Percentile
44.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-200
Status
published
Products (2)
discourse/discourse
3.2.0 beta1
discourse/discourse
< 3.1.1
Published
Oct 16, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026