CVE-2022-31096 MEDIUM

CVE-2022-31096: Invites restricted to an email or invite links restricted to an email domain may be bypassed by a under certain conditions in Discourse

Vendor Discourse
Product discourse
Weakness CWE-281
Published June 27, 2022
Last update April 23, 2025

CVSS base score

5.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Under certain conditions, a logged in user can redeem an invite with an email that either doesn't match the invite's email or does not adhere to the email domain restriction of an invite link. The impact of this flaw is aggravated when the invite has been configured to add the user that accepts the invite into restricted groups. Once a user has been incorrectly added to a restricted group, the user may then be able to view content which that are restricted to the respective group. Users are advised to upgrade to the current stable releases. There are no known workarounds to this issue.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 27, 2022 CVE published
April 23, 2025 Record updated