CVE-2024-53994

Published: Feb 4, 2025Modified: Sep 25, 2025

4.3

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 1.4

Source: security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions users who disable chat in preferences could still be reachable in some cases. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable the chat plugin within site settings.

Affected (5)

Products: Discourse: Discourse

Discourse

1 product

Discourse

Configuration A

5 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Discourse Discourse	Before 3.4.0
Discourse Discourse	Before 3.3.3
Discourse Discourse	Version 3.4.0 beta1
Discourse Discourse	Version 3.4.0 beta2
Discourse Discourse	Version 3.4.0 beta3

Related CWEs

CWE-281

Improper Preservation of Permissions

The product does not preserve permissions or incorrectly preserves permissions when copying, restoring, or sharing objects, which can cause them to have less restrictive permissions than intended.

References (1)

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-mrpw-gwj7-98r6

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Third Party Advisory

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