CVE-2022-39226 MEDIUM

CVE-2022-39226: Discourse user profile location and website fields were not sufficiently length-limited

Vendor Discourse
Product discourse
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published September 29, 2022
Last update April 23, 2025
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CVSS base score

4.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 2.8.9 on the `stable` branch and prior to 2.9.0.beta10 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a malicious actor can add large payloads of text into the Location and Website fields of a user profile, which causes issues for other users when loading that profile. A fix to limit the length of user input for these fields is included in version 2.8.9 on the `stable` branch and version 2.9.0.beta10 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches. There are no known workarounds.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 29, 2022 CVE published
April 23, 2025 Record updated