Discourse-chat plugin susceptible to XSS in channel name and description
discourse-chat is a plugin for the Discourse message board which adds chat functionality. In versions prior to 0.9 some places render a chat channel's name and description in an unsafe way, allowing staff members to cause an cross site scripting (XSS) attack by inserting unsafe HTML into them. Version 0.9 has addressed this issue. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2022-39279
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 18:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Discourse-chat plugin susceptible to XSS in channel name and description
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 6 Oct 2022, 00:00 UTC
discourse-chat is a plugin for the Discourse message board which adds chat functionality. In versions prior to 0.9 some places render a chat channel's name and description in an unsafe way, allowing staff members to cause an cross site scripting (XSS) attack by inserting unsafe HTML into them. Version 0.9 has addressed this issue. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
osv:CVE-2022-39279
Complete source record
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"title": "Discourse-chat plugin susceptible to XSS in channel name and description",
"summary": "discourse-chat is a plugin for the Discourse message board which adds chat functionality. In versions prior to 0.9 some places render a chat channel's name and description in an unsafe way, allowing staff members to cause an cross site scripting (XSS) attack by inserting unsafe HTML into them. Version 0.9 has addressed this issue. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.",
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