CVE-2023-45147

MEDIUM

Discourse < 3.1.1 - Exposure of Sensitive Information via Topic Custom Fields

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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

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