CVE-2023-28440

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions a maliciously crafted request from a Discourse administrator can lead to a long-running request and eventual timeout. This has the greatest potential impact in shared hosting environments where admins are untrusted. This issue has been addressed in versions 3.0.3 and 3.1.0.beta4. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

• CWE-400

• https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-vm65-pv5h-6g3wVendor Advisory
• https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-vm65-pv5h-6g3wVendor Advisory

Published

Apr 18, 2023

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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