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🛡️ CVE-2026-72729 — discourse

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
2.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Discourse: Stored XSS in discourse-local-dates plugin

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.1.6, 2026.5.2, 2026.6.1, and 2026.7.0, the discourse-local-dates plugin rendered crafted local-date format data as HTML on sites with a modified or disabled default Content Security Policy. This issue is fixed in versions 2026.1.6, 2026.5.2, 2026.6.1, and 2026.7.0.

Affected software

CVE-2026-72729 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • discourse
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 17 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-17
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
discourse
unknown

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