CVE-2025-53532

Medium

Description

giscus is a commenting system powered by GitHub Discussions. A bug in giscus' discussions creation API allowed an unauthorized user to create discussions on any repository where giscus is installed. This affects the server-side part of giscus, which is provided via http://giscus.app or your own self-hosted service. This vulnerability is fixed by the c43af7806e65adfcf4d0feeebef76dc36c95cb9a and 4b9745fe1a326ce08d69f8a388331bc993d19389 commits.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.3
Exploit probability—
ProductGiscus
PublishedJul 7, 2025
First seenJul 7, 2025
Weakness typeCWE-285CWE-285

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
giscus giscus< c43af7806e65adfcf4d0feeebef76dc36c95cb9a—

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