Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 1, 2025· Updated Oct 2, 2025
Discourse: Cross-Site Data Exposure via Backup Restore Metacommand Injection in Multisite Deployments
CVE-2025-59337
Description
Discourse is an open-source community discussion platform. In versions 3.5.0 and below, malicious meta-commands could be embedded in a backup dump and executed during restore. In multisite setups, this allowed an admin of one site to access data or credentials from other sites. This issue is fixed in version 3.5.1.
Affected products
1- Range: < 3.5.1
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
2- github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/43536b60d012cc8084e7e701d6afab9ba01e28a5mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-7xjr-4f4g-9887mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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