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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.

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CVEs
CVE-2024-43408
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3 Nov 2026, 13:08 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Discourse Placeholder Forms has a XSS stopped by CSP

core-osv · Original source

Published 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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