CVE-2023-29196 is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Discourse, an open-source community discussion platform. This vulnerability, rated Medium with a CVSS score of 6.1, allows for session hijacking if an attacker successfully embeds JavaScript that bypasses the Content Security Policy (CSP) on a custom-enabled feature. While not exploitable on default Discourse installations, successful exploitation could lead to session hijacking for users viewing the malicious post. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 3.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:stable:*:*:* | ||
< 3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:beta:*:*:* | ||
3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.1.0:beta1:*:*:beta:*:*:* | ||
3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.1.0:beta2:*:*:beta:*:*:* | ||
3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.1.0:beta3:*:*:beta:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
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.
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.