Description
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions the endpoint for generating inline oneboxes for URLs wasn't enforcing limits on the number of URLs that it accepted, allowing a malicious user to inflict denial of service on some parts of the app. This vulnerability is only exploitable by authenticated users. This issue has been patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should turn off the `enable inline onebox on all domains` site setting and remove all entries from the `allowed inline onebox domains` site setting.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-49rv-574x-wgpc
Scores
CVSS v3
4.3
EPSS
0.0018
EPSS Percentile
39.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-400
Status
published
Products (3)
discourse/discourse
3.4.0 beta1 (3 CPE variants)
discourse/discourse
< 3.3.3
discourse/discourse
< 3.4.0
Published
Feb 04, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026