discourse-footnote is a library providing footnotes for posts in Discourse. ### Impact When posting an inline footnote wrapped in <a> tags (e.g. <a>^[footnote]</a>, the resulting rendered HTML would include a nested <a>, which is stripped by Nokogiri because it is not valid. This then caused a javascript error on topic pages because we were looking for an <a> element inside the footnote reference span and getting its ID, and because it did not exist we got a null reference error in javascript. Users are advised to update to version 0.2. As a workaround editing offending posts from the rails console or the database console for self-hosters, or disabling the plugin in the admin panel can mitigate this issue.
Weakness
The product does not handle or incorrectly handles an exceptional condition.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discourse_footnote | Discourse | * | 0.2 (excluding) |
References
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse-footnote/commit/796617e0131277011207541313522cd1946661ab
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse-footnote/security/advisories/GHSA-58vr-c56v-qr57
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse-footnote/commit/796617e0131277011207541313522cd1946661ab
- https://github.com/discourse/discourse-footnote/security/advisories/GHSA-58vr-c56v-qr57