What is CVE-2022-36057?

CVE-2022-36057 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Discourse Discourse-Chat, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2022-09-06.

How severe is CVE-2022-36057?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Discourse Discourse-Chat

CVE-2022-36057

Discourse-Chat is an asynchronous messaging plugin for the Discourse open-source discussion platform. Users of Discourse Chat can be affected by admin users inserting HTML into chat titles and descriptions, causing a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack. Version 0.9 contains a patch for this issue.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (32.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Discourse Discourse-chat — versions < 0.9

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-36057?: CVE-2022-36057 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Discourse Discourse-Chat, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2022-09-06.
How severe is CVE-2022-36057?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.