Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Oct 6, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2022-39279
CVE-2022-39279
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.
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Affected products
3- cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse-chat:*:*:*:*:*:discourse:*:*Range: <0.9
<0.9+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <0.9
- (no CPE)range: < 0.9
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/commit/25737733af48e5b9fa60b0561d7fde14bea13ccenvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/discourse/discourse-chat/security/advisories/GHSA-qp62-8m3c-9jgjnvdThird Party Advisory
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