CVE-2022-36057 MEDIUM

CVE-2022-36057: Discourse-Chat Cross-Site Scripting issue for channel names and descriptions

Vendor Discourse
Product discourse-chat
Weakness CWE-80 · XSS · basic
Published September 6, 2022
Last update April 23, 2025
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CVSS base score

5.4/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Discourse-Chat is an asynchronous messaging plugin for the Discourse open-source discussion platform. Users of Discourse Chat can be affected by admin users inserting HTML into chat titles and descriptions, causing a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack. Version 0.9 contains a patch for this issue.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 6, 2022 CVE published
April 23, 2025 Record updated