CVE-2023-36466

MEDIUM4.3EPSS 0.05%

Topic Title Validation Skipped When Changing Category in Discourse

Published: 3/6/2024Modified: 10/15/2025

Also known as:GHSA-4hjh-wg43-p932BIT-discourse-2023-36466

Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. When editing a topic, there is a vulnerability that enables a user to bypass the topic title validations for things like title length, number of emojis in title and blank topic titles. The issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed version of Discourse.

Affected packages (1)

Bitnami/discoursefrom 0, < 3.0.5

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References (2)

WEBhttps://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-4hjh-wg43-p932
WEBhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36466