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CVE-2024-53994: Potential bypass of chat permissions in Discourse

4.3 CVSS

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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-53994

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 4.3

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

Affected Products

Vendor: discourse

Product: discourse

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 11.83% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-03-05 (when was this score calculated)

References

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

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