CVE-2022-23549 Information

Description

Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the stable branch and version 2.9.0.beta16 on the beta and tests-passed branches users can create posts with raw body longer than the max_length site setting by including html comments that are not counted toward the character limit. This issue is patched in versions 2.8.14 and 2.9.0.beta16. There are no known workarounds.

Reference

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-p47g-v5wr-p4xp https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/bf6b08670a927cc80bb090b7a2e710b4b554e6a8