CVE-2024-24755 discourse-group-membership-ip-block is exposing potentially sensitive custom fields
The Discourse group membership IP block plugin exposes sensitive custom fields to clients, allowing attackers to read private data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-24755?
CVE-2024-24755 is a medium-severity vulnerability in discourse-group-membership-ip-block, published on 1 Feb 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
discourse-group-membership-ip-block is a discourse plugin that adds support for adding users to groups based on their IP address. discourse-group-membership-ip-block was sending all group custom fields to the client, including group custom fields from other plugins which may expect their custom fields to remain secret.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-24755?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Discourse Group Membership Ip Blocks.
How do I fix CVE-2024-24755?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-24755 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-24755 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-24755 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r38c-cp8w-664m.