🛡️ CVE-2024-39320 — discourse

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-74 OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Discourse allows iframe injection though default site setting

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to 3.2.5 and 3.3.0.beta5, the vulnerability allows an attacker to inject iframes from any domain, bypassing the intended restrictions enforced by the allowed_iframes setting. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.5 and 3.3.0.beta5.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-39320 is classified as CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection'). The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or…

Affected software

CVE-2024-39320 is recorded against 1 package.

  • discourse

Timeline and source

Published on 1 August 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
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nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-74
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-08-01
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
discourse — —

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