CVE-2025-48877 HIGH

CVE-2025-48877: Discourse vulnerable to auto-executing of third-party code in embedded CodePen iframe

Vendor Discourse
Product discourse
Weakness CWE-1038
Published June 9, 2025
Last update June 9, 2025

CVSS base score

8.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.4.4 of the `stable` branch, version 3.5.0.beta5 of the `beta` branch, and version 3.5.0.beta6-dev of the `tests-passed` branch, Codepen is present in the default `allowed_iframes` site setting, and it can potentially auto-run arbitrary JS in the iframe scope, which is unintended. This issue is patched in version 3.4.4 of the `stable` branch, version 3.5.0.beta5 of the `beta` branch, and version 3.5.0.beta6-dev of the `tests-passed` branch. As a workaround, the Codepen prefix can be removed from a site's `allowed_iframes`.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 9, 2025 CVE published
June 9, 2025 Record updated