Headline
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.
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