CVE-2023-43657

High

Description

discourse-encrypt is a plugin that provides a secure communication channel through Discourse. Improper escaping of encrypted topic titles could lead to a cross site scripting (XSS) issue when a site has content security policy (CSP) headers disabled. Having CSP disabled is a non-default configuration, and having it disabled with discourse-encrypt installed will result in a warning in the Discourse admin dashboard. This has been fixed in commit `9c75810af9` which is included in the latest version of the discourse-encrypt plugin. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should ensure that CSP headers are enabled and properly configured.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.2
Exploit probability—
ProductDiscourse-encrypt
PublishedSep 28, 2023
First seenSep 28, 2023

How to fix

Update
  • discourse discourse-encrypt2023-09-28 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
discourse discourse-encryptv < 2023-09-282023-09-28

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