CVE-2024-47773 is a high-severity anonymous cache poisoning vulnerability affecting Discourse, an open-source community discussion platform. An attacker can repeatedly send XHR requests to poison the cache with responses lacking preloaded data, impacting anonymous visitors. With a CVSS score of 8.2 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a network attack vector, low complexity, and can lead to high integrity and low availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, an exploit (EDB-52358) is publicly available, though community discussion and media coverage remain minimal. Users are advised to upgrade Discourse or disable the anonymous cache by setting the DISCOURSE_DISABLE_ANON_CACHE environment variable.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 3.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:stable:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.