Medium
Discourse improperly sanitized user input leads to XSS
Type: advisorySources: OSV
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Improperly sanitized user input could lead to an XSS vulnerability in some situations. This vulnerability only affects Discourse instances which have disabled the default Content Security Policy. The vulnerability is patched in 3.1.5 and 3.2.0.beta5. As a workaround, ensure Content Security Policy is enabled and does not include `unsafe-inline`.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-23834
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 21:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Discourse improperly sanitized user input leads to XSS
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 30 Jan 2024, 21:31 UTC
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Improperly sanitized user input could lead to an XSS vulnerability in some situations. This vulnerability only affects Discourse instances which have disabled the default Content Security Policy. The vulnerability is patched in 3.1.5 and 3.2.0.beta5. As a workaround, ensure Content Security Policy is enabled and does not include `unsafe-inline`.
osv:CVE-2024-23834
Complete source record
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