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CVE-2021-41163

CRITICAL CVSS: 10.0 Published: 2021-10-20 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions maliciously crafted requests could lead to remote code execution. This resulted from a lack of validation in subscribe_url values. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse. To workaround the issue without updating, requests with a path starting /webhooks/aws path could be blocked at an upstream proxy.

Affected Platforms

Discourse Discourse

Weakness Type

CWE-74, CWE-74

References