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Bug bounty reports15,219

Publicly disclosed HackerOne reports, with the platform's own outcome and severity.

Program:Discourse
Status
Severity:High
Clear
Weakness
Year
Bounty paid8
Access stated
  • No account0
  • A user account0
  • Admin or privileged0
Access needed
Technique
Clear filters14 of 15,219 reports
Disclosed bug bounty reports
ReportStatusWeaknessSeverityDisclosedBountyVotes
Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability in Drafts Creation EndpointAnalysed#3400140ValidDenial of ServiceHigh2026-06-30$1,02498
Account takeover at https://try.discourse.org due to no CSRF protection in connecting Yahoo accountAnalysed#423022ValidCross-Site Request ForgeryHigh2018-12-06–89
Application Level DoS - Large Markdown Payload in Reply Section Leading to Resource ExhaustionAnalysed#3058919ValidDenial of ServiceHigh2025-10-18–84
Arbitrary Local-File Read from Admin - Restore From Backup due to SymlinksAnalysed#213558ValidInformation DisclosureHigh2017-05-13$51252
Web Cache Deception Attack (XSS)Analysed#394016ValidCross-site ScriptingHigh2018-11-18$25651
Admin Command Injection via username in user_archive ExportCsvFileAnalysed#214022ValidCommand and Code InjectionHigh2017-05-13$51245
DOM Based XSS in Discourse SearchAnalysed#191890ValidCross-site ScriptingHigh2017-01-10–29
Stored XSS in "post last edited" optionAnalysed#333507ValidCross-site ScriptingHigh2018-07-09$25619
Gaining access to private topics using quoting featureAnalysed#312647ValidAccess ControlHigh2018-03-17$25619
XSS in topics because of bandcamp preview engine vulnerabilityAnalysed#197443ValidCross-site ScriptingHigh2017-01-20–15
XSS vulnerability on Audio and Video parsersAnalysed#192223ValidCross-site ScriptingHigh2017-01-10$25615
XSS Vulnerability on Image link parserAnalysed#191909ValidCross-site ScriptingHigh2017-01-10$25615
Stored XSS in posts because of absence of oembed variables values escapingAnalysed#197914ValidCross-site ScriptingHigh2017-01-20–13
Stored XSS in topics because of whitelisted_generic engine vulnerabilityAnalysed#197902ValidCross-site ScriptingHigh2017-01-20–13

Status and severity are HackerOne's. “Access stated” is what the title says; “Access needed” and techniques come from CyberSIXT's analysis of the public report, where there is one, which can be wrong. Data as of 2026-11-15.