Security News > 2021 > October > CISA Urges Sites to Patch Critical RCE in Discourse
Discourse - the ultra-popular, widely deployed open-source community forum and mailing list management platform - has a critical remote code-execution bug that was fixed in an urgent update on Friday.
Discourse is widely used and wildly popular, being known for topping competing forum software platforms in terms of usability.
The issue has been patched in the latest beta, stable and tests-passed versions of Discourse.
The researcher, "Joernchen," told BleepingComputer that he reported the issue to the Discourse team immediately upon finding it on Oct. 10 and that the patch itself made it easy to figure out how an exploit would work.
Although the software-as-a-service versions of Discourse were fixed as of Wednesday, there might still be many vulnerable deployments.
Threatpost has reached out to Discourse for more details and to ask whether or not the team has seen any signs that the RCE has been exploited in the wild.
News URL
https://threatpost.com/cisa-critical-rce-discourse/175705/
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