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CVE-2023-43657: Improper escaping of encrypted topic titles can lead to XSS under non-default site configuration

discourse-encrypt is a plugin that provides a secure communication channel through Discourse. Improper escaping of encrypted topic titles could lead to a cross site scripting (XSS) issue when a site has content security policy (CSP) headers disabled. Having CSP disabled is a non-default configuration, and having it disabled with discourse-encrypt installed will result in a warning in the Discourse admin dashboard. This has been fixed in commit 9c75810af9 which is included in the latest version of the discourse-encrypt plugin. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should ensure that CSP headers are enabled and properly configured.

CVE
#xss#perl

High

ZogStriP published GHSA-5fh6-wp7p-xx7v

Sep 28, 2023

Package

discourse-encrypt (Discourse)

Affected versions

<= c492904c

Patched versions

> c492904c

Description

Impact

Improper escaping of encrypted topic titles could lead to XSS when a site has CSP disabled. Having CSP disabled is a non-default configuration, and having it disabled with discourse-encrypt installed will result in a warning in the Discourse admin dashboard.

Patches

This has been fixed in the latest version of the discourse-encrypt plugin.

Workarounds

Ensure CSP is enabled

Severity

CVSS base metrics

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

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