Vulnerabilites related to giscus - giscus
CVE-2025-53532 (GCVE-0-2025-53532)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-07 17:06
Modified
2025-07-07 17:52
CWE
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
giscus giscus Version: < c43af7806e65adfcf4d0feeebef76dc36c95cb9a
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