CVE-2022-31184 (GCVE-0-2022-31184)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-01 19:40
Modified
2025-04-23 17:55
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In affected versions an email activation route can be abused to send mass spam emails. A fix has been included in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse which rate limits emails. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should manually rate limit email.
References
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Impacted products
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