Discourse-Chat XSS via Inlined HTML in Titles/Descriptions (Vulnerable <0.9)
CVE-2022-36057 Published on September 6, 2022
Discourse-Chat Cross-Site Scripting issue for channel names and descriptions
Discourse-Chat is an asynchronous messaging plugin for the Discourse open-source discussion platform. Users of Discourse Chat can be affected by admin users inserting HTML into chat titles and descriptions, causing a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack. Version 0.9 contains a patch for this issue.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2022-36057 can be exploited with network access, requires user interaction and a small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality and integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Types
What is a Basic XSS Vulnerability?
The software receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. This may allow such characters to be treated as control characters, which are executed client-side in the context of the user's session. Although this can be classified as an injection problem, the more pertinent issue is the improper conversion of such special characters to respective context-appropriate entities before displaying them to the user.
CVE-2022-36057 has been classified to as a Basic XSS vulnerability or weakness.
What is a XSS Vulnerability?
The software does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
CVE-2022-36057 has been classified to as a XSS vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2022-36057
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Affected Versions
discourse-chat Version < 0.9 is affected by CVE-2022-36057Exploit Probability
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