Vulnerability in Discourse

CVE-2025-23023

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can carefully craft a request with the right request headers to poison the anonymous cache (for example, the cache may have a response with missing preloaded data). This issue only affects anonymous visitors of the site. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may disable anonymous cache by setting the `DISCOURSE_DISABLE_ANON_CACHE` environment variable to a non-empty value.

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (15.7th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 16th percentile — 15.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2025-23023: held from 0.003 to 0.003.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Discourse — versions stable: < 3.3.2, tests-passed: < 3.4.0.beta3

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-23023?
CVE-2025-23023 is a high-severity vulnerability in Discourse, classified under Origin Validation Error. CVSS score: 8.2/10. Published 2025-02-04.
How severe is CVE-2025-23023?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.2 out of 10.