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CVE-2025-53532

A bug in giscus' discussions creation API allowed an unauthorized user to create discussions on any repository where giscus is installed.

MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 0.31%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.31%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 3.1
5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS
0.31% probability · 24th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-285
Source
security-advisories@github.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%27 October 2026: 0.31%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 0.3% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.