CVE-2022-23549

Summary

Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the stable branch and version 2.9.0.beta16 on the beta and tests-passed branches, users can create posts with raw body longer than the max_length site setting by including html comments that are not counted toward the character limit. This issue is patched in versions 2.8.14 and 2.9.0.beta16. There are no known workarounds.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
discoursediscourse2.8.14 < 2.8.14affected
discoursediscourse2.9.0.beta0 <= 2.9.0.beta0affected
discoursediscourse2.9.0.beta16 < 2.9.0.beta16affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-20: CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References