CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-48877

Insecure Automated Optimizations

Published: Jun 09, 2025 | Modified: Sep 25, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.4.4 of the stable branch, version 3.5.0.beta5 of the beta branch, and version 3.5.0.beta6-dev of the tests-passed branch, Codepen is present in the default allowed_iframes site setting, and it can potentially auto-run arbitrary JS in the iframe scope, which is unintended. This issue is patched in version 3.4.4 of the stable branch, version 3.5.0.beta5 of the beta branch, and version 3.5.0.beta6-dev of the tests-passed branch. As a workaround, the Codepen prefix can be removed from a sites allowed_iframes.

Weakness

The product uses a mechanism that automatically optimizes code, e.g. to improve a characteristic such as performance, but the optimizations can have an unintended side effect that might violate an intended security assumption.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Discourse Discourse * 3.4.4 (excluding)
Discourse Discourse * 3.5.0 (excluding)
Discourse Discourse 3.5.0-beta1 (including) 3.5.0-beta1 (including)
Discourse Discourse 3.5.0-beta2 (including) 3.5.0-beta2 (including)
Discourse Discourse 3.5.0-beta3 (including) 3.5.0-beta3 (including)
Discourse Discourse 3.5.0-beta4 (including) 3.5.0-beta4 (including)

References