# CVE-2022-46180: Arbitrary HTML injection in discourse-mermaid-theme-component

- Severity: CVSS 5.0 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-01-04 · Updated: 2025-03-10

## Affected

- discourse discourse-mermaid-theme-component: 1.0.0

## Description

Discourse Mermaid (discourse-mermaid-theme-component) allows users of Discourse, open-source forum software, to create graphs using the Mermaid syntax. Users of discourse-mermaid-theme-component version 1.0.0 who can create posts are able to inject arbitrary HTML on that post. The issue has been fixed on the `main` branch of the GitHub repository, with 1.1.0 named as a patched version. Admins can update the theme component through the admin UI. As a workaround, admins can temporarily disable discourse-mermaid-theme-component.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on discourse discourse-mermaid-theme-component, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/discourse/discourse-mermaid-theme-component/security/advisories/GHSA-8437-hgcm-p3q3
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse-mermaid-theme-component/pull/14
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse-mermaid-theme-component/commit/c10bc4a08bf865cee20e5d5dffba535762813f0f

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