Vulnerability CVE-2022-39356


Published: 2022-11-02

Description:
Discourse is a platform for community discussion. Users who receive an invitation link that is not scoped to a single email address can enter any non-admin user's email and gain access to their account when accepting the invitation. All users should upgrade to the latest version. A workaround is temporarily disabling invitations with `SiteSetting.max_invites_per_day = 0` or scope them to individual email addresses.

 References:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-x8w7-rwmr-w278
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/18817

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