CVE-2022-31184

highpriority · track · 30EPSS 0.007 · 53 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.69% (53rd) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

5 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In affected versions an email activation route can be abused to send mass spam emails. A fix has been included in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse which rate limits emails. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should manually rate limit email.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–7.5

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-770US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

discourse discourse≤ < 2.8.7enisa_euvdEU
discourse discourse≤ < 2.9.0.beta8enisa_euvdEU
discourse discourse≤ 2.8.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
discourse discourse= 2.9.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami discourse≤ 2.8.6osvUSpkg:bitnami/discourse

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

BIT-discourse-2022-31184Email activation route can be abused by spammers in Discourse2024-03-06vendor · osvUS
Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In affected versions an email activation route can be abused to send mass spam emails. A fix has been included in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse which rate limits emails. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should manually rate limit email.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-08-01modified 2026-06-17

references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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