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giscus

Commenting system powered by GitHub Discussions

Forums & Community ★ 12.2k stars Easy setup MIT

giscus is a comments widget that stores discussion threads in a repository's GitHub Discussions, letting visitors comment using their GitHub accounts. It is self-hostable as a static app.

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Key features

  • Comments via GitHub Discussions
  • No database needed
  • GitHub authentication
  • Theme support

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • Mature project with 12.2k GitHub stars
  • Written in TypeScript

Is giscus secure?

OSV.dev lists 1 published advisory for giscus. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2025-53532, published 2025-07-07 (464 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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   :alt: SelfHostIndex health score for giscus
   :target: https://selfhostindex.com/app/giscus/

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