Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-23549 - Unspecified vulnerability in Discourse
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the `stable` branch and version 2.9.0.beta16 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, users can create posts with raw body longer than the `max_length` site setting by including html comments that are not counted toward the character limit. This issue is patched in versions 2.8.14 and 2.9.0.beta16. There are no known workarounds.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/bf6b08670a927cc80bb090b7a2e710b4b554e6a8
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/bf6b08670a927cc80bb090b7a2e710b4b554e6a8
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-p47g-v5wr-p4xp
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-p47g-v5wr-p4xp