CVE-2024-37165
Published: 30 July 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-37165 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Discourse Discourse. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 22.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-36475
Vulnerability details
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to 3.2.3 and 3.3.0.beta3, improperly sanitized Onebox data could lead to an XSS vulnerability in some situations. This vulnerability only affects Discourse instances which have disabled the default Content Security Policy. This…
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vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.3 and 3.3.0.beta3.
- 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.