CVE-2025-46824

Discourse Code Review Plugin vulnerable to XSS via auto link commits

LOW
3.1
CVSS Score
Published: May 7, 2025 at 05:37 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:26 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCode Review

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Severity
LOW3.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

The Discourse Code Review Plugin allows users to review GitHub commits on Discourse. Prior to commit eed3a80, an attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript on users' browsers by posting links to malicious GitHub commits. This problem is patched in commit eed3a80 of the discourse-code-review plugin. As a workaround, one may disable the plugin.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < eed3a80
Affected range stops below eed3a80, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

3.1LOWGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-79

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