CVE-2022-46162 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

discourse-bbcode is the official BBCode plugin for Discourse. Prior to commit 91478f5, CSS injection can occur when rendering content generated with the discourse-bccode plugin. This vulnerability only affects sites which have the discourse-bbcode plugin installed and enabled. This issue is patched in commit 91478f5. As a workaround, ensure that the Content Security Policy is enabled and monitor any posts that contain bbcode.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00476.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Discourse	Discourse Bbcode

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse_bbcode:*:*:*:*:*:discourse:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-48993	discourse-bbcode is the official BBCode plugin for Discourse. Prior to commit 91478f5, CSS injection can occur when rendering content generated with the discourse-bccode plugin. This vulnerability only affects sites which have the discourse-bbcode plugin installed and enabled. This issue is patched in commit 91478f5. As a workaround, ensure that the Content Security Policy is enabled and monitor any posts that contain bbcode.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode/commit/91478f5cfecdcc43cf85b997168a8ecfd0f8df90
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode/security/advisories/GHSA-8c87-xpqv-c7mp

History

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2022-11-30T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-22T15:58:52.978Z

Reserved: 2022-11-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-46162

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T14:24:03.394Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-30T23:15:10.673

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:30:14.113

Link: CVE-2022-46162

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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