Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 1, 2022· Updated Apr 23, 2025
Email activation route can be abused by spammers in Discourse
CVE-2022-31184
Description
Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In affected versions an email activation route can be abused to send mass spam emails. A fix has been included in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse which rate limits emails. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should manually rate limit email.
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Affected products
3(expand)+ 1 more
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: < 2.8.7
Patches
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References
2- github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/af1cb735db7fb73217b85d22dbadd1bc824ac0b0mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-m5w9-8gp8-2hrfmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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