Description
discourse-footnote is a library providing footnotes for posts in Discourse. ### Impact When posting an inline footnote wrapped in `<a>` tags (e.g. `<a>^[footnote]</a>`, the resulting rendered HTML would include a nested `<a>`, which is stripped by Nokogiri because it is not valid. This then caused a javascript error on topic pages because we were looking for an `<a>` element inside the footnote reference span and getting its ID, and because it did not exist we got a null reference error in javascript. Users are advised to update to version 0.2. As a workaround editing offending posts from the rails console or the database console for self-hosters, or disabling the plugin in the admin panel can mitigate this issue.
Published: 2021-12-14
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-30707 discourse-footnote is a library providing footnotes for posts in Discourse. ### Impact When posting an inline footnote wrapped in `<a>` tags (e.g. `<a>^[footnote]</a>`, the resulting rendered HTML would include a nested `<a>`, which is stripped by Nokogiri because it is not valid. This then caused a javascript error on topic pages because we were looking for an `<a>` element inside the footnote reference span and getting its ID, and because it did not exist we got a null reference error in javascript. Users are advised to update to version 0.2. As a workaround editing offending posts from the rails console or the database console for self-hosters, or disabling the plugin in the admin panel can mitigate this issue.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

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Updated: 2024-08-04T04:03:08.963Z

Reserved: 2021-11-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-43827

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-12-14T23:15:08.020

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:29:52.763

Link: CVE-2021-43827

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