Improper escaping of encrypted topic titles can lead to Cross-site Scripting under non-default site configuration
Description
discourse-encrypt is a plugin that provides a secure communication channel through Discourse. Improper escaping of encrypted topic titles could lead to a cross site scripting (XSS) issue when a site has content security policy (CSP) headers disabled. Having CSP disabled is a non-default configuration, and having it disabled with discourse-encrypt installed will result in a warning in the Discourse admin dashboard. This has been fixed in commit 9c75810af9 which is included in the latest version of the discourse-encrypt plugin. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should ensure that CSP headers are enabled and properly configured.
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Affected products
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: <= c492904c
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References
3- developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSPmitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/discourse/discourse-encrypt/commit/9c75810af9a474d7edaec67dea66f852c0ba1f4emitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/discourse/discourse-encrypt/security/advisories/GHSA-5fh6-wp7p-xx7vmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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