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CVE-2022-21678

User's bio visible even if profile is restricted in Discourse

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2.7.13, 2.8.0.beta11
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.0.beta11 in the `tests-passed` branch, version 2.8.0.beta11 in the `beta` branch, and version 2.7.13 in the `stable` branch, the bios of users who made their profiles private were still visible in the `<meta>` tags on their users' pages. The problem is patched in `tests-passed` version 2.8.0.beta11, `beta` version 2.8.0.beta11, and `stable` version 2.7.13 of Discourse.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • discourse discourse

    fixed in 2.7.13; fixed in 2.8.0.beta11

References 3

GitHub · discourse/discourse