Unintentional leakage of private information via cross-origin websocket session hijacking
### Impact Private messages or posts might be leaked to third parties if victim opens the attackers site while browsing nodebb. ### Patches * Patched in v3.1.3 * Backported to v2.x line via v2.8.13 ### Workarounds Users can cherry-pick https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/51096ad2345fb1d1380bec0a447113489ef6c359 if they are on v3.x If you are running v2.x of NodeBB, you can cherry-pick a5d92da9ddac5607ab7f737520a66eaed6d3ddee followed by 62e162cf1e735e42462be1db9b4954b5a69accdf
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2023-2850US | medium4.7 | — | ||
NodeBB is affected by a Cross-Site WebSocket Hijacking vulnerability due to missing validation of the request origin. Exploitation of this vulnerability allows certain user informa… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBBPACKAGE
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/51096ad2345fb1d1380bec0a447113489ef6c359WEB
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/62e162cf1e735e42462be1db9b4954b5a69accdfWEB
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/commit/a5d92da9ddac5607ab7f737520a66eaed6d3ddeeWEB
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/releases/tag/v3.1.3WEB
- https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/security/advisories/GHSA-4qcv-qf38-5j3jWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2850ADVISORY
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