{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including discourse. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-23615 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade discourse to 3.0.1 or later.","what":"CVE-2023-23615 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Discourse Discourse, published on 3 Feb 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-23615 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-23615 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Discourse Discourse, published on 3 Feb 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-23615 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- discourse (Bitnami): affected all versions; fixed in 3.0.1\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23615/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23615/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-23615","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23615/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-23615","record":{"aliases":["BIT-discourse-2023-23615","GHSA-7mf3-5v84-wxq8"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_modify","security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Discourse forum platform","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can create spam topics as any user via embeddable comments, requiring the feature to be enabled.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"missing_authorization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"discourse","vendor":"discourse"}],"cvss":{"score":5.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-284","name":"Improper Access Control"}],"description":"Discourse is an open source discussion platform. The embeddable comments can be exploited to create new topics as any user but without any clear title or content. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. As a workaround, disable embeddable comments by deleting all embeddable hosts.","ecosystems":["Bitnami"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Malicious users in Discourse can create spam topics as any user due to improper access control","id":"CVE-2023-23615","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","product":"discourse:discourse","products":["discourse:discourse"],"type":"missing_authorization","year":"2023"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Discourse membership requests lack character limit","id":"CVE-2023-23616"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","fixed":["3.0.1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"discourse","purl":"pkg:bitnami/discourse","source":"BIT-discourse-2023-23615"}],"prev":{"headline":"Improper session handling of \"Remember me for 7 days\" functionality","id":"CVE-2023-23614"},"products":["discourse"],"published":"2023-02-03","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"RCE via malicious SNS subscription payload","id":"CVE-2021-41163","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-10-20"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Discourse vulnerable to RCE via admins uploading maliciously zipped file","id":"CVE-2022-36066","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-09-29"},{"cvss_score":8.9,"headline":"Discourse user account takeover via email and invite link","id":"CVE-2022-39356","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-11-02"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Discourse vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in local oneboxes","id":"CVE-2023-22468","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-01-26"},{"cvss_score":8.7,"headline":"Discourse leaks private topic title and post excerpt via user action API endpoint","id":"CVE-2026-27934","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-03-19"},{"cvss_score":8.7,"headline":"Discourse vulnerable to DoS via large URL payload in PM to a bot","id":"CVE-2025-48053","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-06-09"},{"cvss_score":8.6,"headline":"Discourse vulnerable to unlimited mentioned users in message serializer","id":"CVE-2023-48297","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-01-12"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"Bitnami","prefix":"BIT"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"yes","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-03-10","vendors":["discourse"]},"summary":"Attackers can create spam topics as any user via embeddable comments, requiring the feature to be enabled.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23615/"}