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CVE-2021-43794

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.3 Published: 2021-12-01 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In affected versions an attacker can poison the cache for anonymous (i.e. not logged in) users, such that the users are shown a JSON blob instead of the HTML page. This can lead to a partial denial-of-service. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of Discourse.

Affected Platforms

Discourse Discourse

Weakness Type

CWE-610

References