Medium
Discourse Placeholder Forms has a XSS stopped by CSP
Type: advisorySources: OSV
Discourse Placeholder Forms will let you build dynamic documentation. Unsanitized and stored user input was injected in the html of the post. The vulnerability is fixed in commit a62f711d5600e4e5d86f342d52932cb6221672e7.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2024-43408
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 13:08 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Discourse Placeholder Forms has a XSS stopped by CSP
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 20 Aug 2024, 16:28 UTC
Discourse Placeholder Forms will let you build dynamic documentation. Unsanitized and stored user input was injected in the html of the post. The vulnerability is fixed in commit a62f711d5600e4e5d86f342d52932cb6221672e7.
osv:CVE-2024-43408
Complete source record
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