Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-43657 - Unspecified vulnerability in Discourse Discourse-Encrypt
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
LOW Integrity impact
LOW Availability impact
NONE Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
References
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse-encrypt/commit/9c75810af9a474d7edaec67dea66f852c0ba1f4e
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse-encrypt/commit/9c75810af9a474d7edaec67dea66f852c0ba1f4e
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse-encrypt/security/advisories/GHSA-5fh6-wp7p-xx7v
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse-encrypt/security/advisories/GHSA-5fh6-wp7p-xx7v