CVE-2024-56328 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-56328

HTMLi(XSS without CSP) via Onebox urls in Discourse

Vulnerability Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. An attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript on users' browsers by posting a maliciously crafted onebox url. This issue only affects sites with CSP disabled. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should enable CSP, disable inline Oneboxes globally, or allow specific domains for Oneboxing.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

discourse
Vulnerable Versions:
stable: <= 3.3.3, beta: <= 3.4.0.beta3, tests-passed: <= 3.4.0.beta3

Timeline

Official Publish: February 4th, 2025
Last Modified: February 12th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1189 Drive-by Compromise
Initial Access
T1059.007 JavaScript
Execution
T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie
Collection
T1213 Data from Information Repositories
Collection
T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service
Exfiltration
T1491.001 Defacement
Impact