CVE-2022-39226
mediumpriority · track · 17EPSS 0.010 · 64 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 2.8.9 on the `stable` branch and prior to 2.9.0.beta10 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a malicious actor can add large payloads of text into the Location and Website fields of a user profile, which causes issues for other users when loading that profile. A fix to limit the length of user input for these fields is included in version 2.8.9 on the `stable` branch and version 2.9.0.beta10 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches. There are no known workarounds.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
ssvc
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weaknesses
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affected products (5)
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advisories (1)
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- BIT-discourse-2022-39226Discourse user profile location and website fields were not sufficiently length-limited2024-03-06vendor · osvUS
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 2.8.9 on the `stable` branch and prior to 2.9.0.beta10 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, a malicious actor can add large payloads of text into the Location and Website fields of a user profile, which causes issues for other users when loading that profile. A fix to limit the length of user input for these fields is included in version 2.8.9 on the `stable` branch and version 2.9.0.beta10 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches. There are no known workarounds.
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references (11)
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- https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2022-39226/cnnvd
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e69f7d2fd9c977dedbdb17f6813651e2a45bfb71cnnvd
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/18302cnnvd
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-jw3q-xg5g-qjrwcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39226cnnvd
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e69f7d2fd9c977dedbdb17f6813651e2a45bfb71enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/18302enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-jw3q-xg5g-qjrwenisa_euvd
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