CVE-2026-53962: Discourse

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5, insufficient SVG sanitization in upload and user avatar handling could lead to cross-site scripting when a user visited specific URLs that are not normally part of community browsing. This issue is fixed in versions 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5.

Affected products

• Discourse Discourse: from 2026.1.0, before 2026.1.5 (fixed in 2026.1.5); from 2026.4.0, before 2026.4.2 (fixed in 2026.4.2); from 2026.5.0, before 2026.5.1 (fixed in 2026.5.1); version 2026.6.0 only

Published 2026-07-09. Last modified 2026-07-14.