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CVE-2022-21678

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-21678 affects Discourse, an open-source discussion platform, where user bios remained visible in HTML meta tags even when profiles were set to private. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) allows for information disclosure (CWE-200) with low attack complexity, requiring only low privileges to access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.7.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta10:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2.8.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.79%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
52.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0079 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 21,977 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / discourse/discourse/commit/5e2e178fcfb490c37b9f8bb9f737185441b1d6de
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / discourse/discourse/commit/c0bb775f3f35b1b0d04a5b2a984f57c3e39f9e6c
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-jwww-46gv-564m
PatchThird Party Advisory