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TI-2024-36258 Aliases CVE-2024-54142

Cross-site Scripting via Discourse-ai SharedAiConversation onebox in Discourse

Priority MEDIUM 42CWE-79Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

Discourse AI is a Discourse plugin which provides a number of AI features. When sharing Discourse AI Bot conversations into posts, if the conversation had HTML entities those could leak into the Discourse application when a user visited a post with a onebox to said conversation. This issue has been addressed in commit `92f122c`. Users are advised to update. Users unable to update may remove all groups from `ai bot public sharing allowed groups` site setting.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00433 37th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed discourse-ai (discourse): 92f122c

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
discoursediscourse-aibefore 92f122c92f122cPatch availableCNA
  • discourse-ai Vendordiscourse Affected before 92f122c Fixed in 92f122c Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA discourse-ai (discourse) Fixed in 92f122c

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-54142

References

Other 2

  • TI-2022-22806 Discourse BBCode plugin vulnerable to arbitrary CSS injection CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2021-19656 Denial of Service in discourse CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.8
  • TI-2024-36150 Potential Backup file leaked via Nginx in Discourse CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2021-18002 RCE via malicious SNS subscription payload CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
  • TI-2026-24651 Discourse: Open redirect via `sso_destination_url` cookie in `enter` CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.1
  • TI-2022-18730 Discourse Patreon vulnerable to improper validation of email during Patreon authentication CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
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Sources

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