CVE-2024-28242

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-200 Information Leak / Disclosure

Publication date:

15/03/2024

Last modified:

26/09/2025

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can learn that secret categories exist when they have backgrounds set. The issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should temporarily remove category backgrounds.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.30 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

5.30

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:::::stable:::*		3.2.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:::::beta:::*		3.3.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.3.0:-:::beta:::*
cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:3.3.0:beta1:::beta:::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2024-28242

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools