Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can trick a target user to make changes to their own username via carefully crafted link using the activate-account route. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
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"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/22xxx/CVE-2025-22601.json",
"cwe_ids": [
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]
}{
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],
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],
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