CVE-2023-43659
Published: 16 October 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-43659 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Discourse Discourse. Its CVSS base score is 8.0 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 29.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-48048
Vulnerability details
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Improper escaping of user input allowed for Cross-site Scripting attacks via the digest email preview UI. This issue only affects sites with CSP disabled. This issue has been patched in the…
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3.1.1 stable release as well as the 3.2.0.beta1 release. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should ensure CSP is enabled on the forum.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.