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Anonymous cache poisoning via XHR requests in Discourse

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. An attacker can make several XHR requests until the cache is poisoned with a response without any preloaded data. This issue only affects anonymous visitors of the site. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable anonymous cache by setting the `DISCOURSE_DISABLE_ANON_CACHE` environment variable to a non-empty value.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2024-47773
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
3 Nov 2026, 18:34 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Anonymous cache poisoning via XHR requests in Discourse

core-osv · Original source

Published 8 Oct 2024, 18:01 UTC

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. An attacker can make several XHR requests until the cache is poisoned with a response without any preloaded data. This issue only affects anonymous visitors of the site. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable anonymous cache by setting the `DISCOURSE_DISABLE_ANON_CACHE` environment variable to a non-empty value.

osv:CVE-2024-47773
Complete source record
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