CVE-2025-53532

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53532

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-53532.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-53532

Aliases

GHSA-w6vg-v24f-4vm3

Published

2025-07-07T17:06:58.249Z

Modified

2026-07-08T07:09:36.060333509Z

Severity

5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

giscus allows unauthorized discussion creation

Details

giscus is a commenting system powered by GitHub Discussions. A bug in giscus' discussions creation API allowed an unauthorized user to create discussions on any repository where giscus is installed. This affects the server-side part of giscus, which is provided via http://giscus.app or your own self-hosted service. This vulnerability is fixed by the c43af7806e65adfcf4d0feeebef76dc36c95cb9a and 4b9745fe1a326ce08d69f8a388331bc993d19389 commits.

Database specific

{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/53xxx/CVE-2025-53532.json",
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-285"
    ],
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "c43af7806e65adfcf4d0feeebef76dc36c95cb9a"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
        }
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/giscus/giscus

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/giscus/giscus

Events

Introduced

Fixed

4b9745fe1a326ce08d69f8a388331bc993d19389

Fixed

c43af7806e65adfcf4d0feeebef76dc36c95cb9a

Database specific

{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-53532.json"