Vulnerability CVE-2024-47773


Published: 2024-10-08

Description:
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. An attacker can make several XHR requests until the cache is poisoned with a response without any preloaded data. This issue only affects anonymous visitors of the site. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable anonymous cache by setting the `DISCOURSE_DISABLE_ANON_CACHE` environment variable to a non-empty value.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
Discourse 3.2.x Anonymous Cache Poisoning
ibrahimsql
11.07.2025

Type:

CWE-610

(Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere)

 References:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-58vv-9j8h-hw2v

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