CVE-2023-45147

Summary

CVE-2023-45147 affects Discourse, an open-source community platform. In vulnerable versions, users can add arbitrary custom fields to any topic. The severity of this issue depends on the specific plugins installed and their usage of topic custom fields. For default Discourse installations with default plugins, this vulnerability has no impact. Users are advised to update to the latest version, 3.1.1 for stable releases, or 3.2.0.beta2 for beta versions. Alternatively, users unable to upgrade should disable any plugins that access topic custom fields to mitigate the risk.

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