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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2025-53532 Detail

Description

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.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/giscus/giscus/commit/4b9745fe1a326ce08d69f8a388331bc993d19389 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/giscus/giscus/commit/c43af7806e65adfcf4d0feeebef76dc36c95cb9a GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/giscus/giscus/security/advisories/GHSA-w6vg-v24f-4vm3 GitHub, Inc.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-285 Improper Authorization GitHub, Inc.  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-53532
NVD Published Date:
07/07/2025
NVD Last Modified:
07/08/2025
Source:
GitHub, Inc.