Discourse security vulnerabilities

Discourse is an open-source community discussion platform developed by Discourse. This platform includes features such as communities, email communication, and chat rooms. Versions of Discourse before 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0 contain security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stem...

PT-2026-22188

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Discourse versions prior to 2025.12.2 Discourse versions prior to 2026.1.1 Discourse versions prior to 2026.2.0 Description Discourse, an open source discussion platform, had an issue where the posts nearby function was not properly filtering...

Discourse security vulnerabilities

Discourse is an open-source community discussion platform developed by Discourse. This platform includes features such as communities, email communication, and chat rooms. Versions of Discourse before 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0 contain security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities stem...

CVE-2026-28219: Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0, an improper authorization check in the topic management logic allows authenticated users to modify privileged attributes of their topics. By manipulating specific parameters in a PUT or POST...

PT-2026-22195

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Discourse versions prior to 2025.12.2 Discourse versions prior to 2026.1.1 Discourse versions prior to 2026.2.0 Description Discourse is an open source discussion platform. A flaw exists in the Data Explorer plugin's access control mechanism...

CVE-2026-28218: Improper Access Control

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0, fail-open access control in Data Explorer plugin allows any authenticated user to execute SQL queries that have no explicit group assignments, including built-in system queries. Versions 2025.12....

Discourse Access Control Vulnerability

Discourse is Discourse open source set of open source community discussion platform. The platform includes features such as community , e-mail and chat rooms . Discourse suffers from an Access Control Error vulnerability that stems from an open Access Control Failure in the Data Explorer plugin,...

The Rise of AI Agent Communities: Large-Scale Analysis of Discourse and Interaction on Moltbook

Moltbook is a Reddit-like social platform where AI agents create posts and interact with other agents through comments and replies, offering a real-world setting to examine agent-to-agent communication at scale. Using a public API snapshot collected about five days after launch 122,438 posts, we...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2026-24742 Discourse staff action logs expose sensitive information to moderators

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, non-admin moderators can view sensitive information in staff action logs that should be restricted to administrators only. The exposed information includes webhook payload URLs and...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2026-21865 Discourse topic conversion permission vulnerability for moderators

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, moderators can convert some personal messages to public topics when they shouldn't have access. This issue is patched in versions 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0. As a...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2025-69289 Discourse has insecure default configuration that allows non-admin moderators to takeover any non-staff account via email change

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. A privilege escalation vulnerability in versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0 allows a non-admin moderator to bypass email-change restrictions, allowing a takeover of non-staff accounts. This issue is patched in versions 3.5.4...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2025-68933 Discourse non-admin moderators can exfiltrate private content via post ownership transfer

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, non-admin moderators with the moderatorschangepostownership setting enabled can change ownership of posts in private messages and restricted categories they cannot access, then export...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2025-68666 Discourse users archives leaked to users with moderation privileges

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, users archives are viewable by users with moderation privileges even though moderators should not have access to the archives. Private topic/post content made by the users are leaked...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2025-68662 FinalDestination hostname matching allows SSRF protection bypass

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, a hostname validation issue in FinalDestination could allow bypassing SSRF protections under certain conditions. This issue is patched in versions 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2025-68660 Discourse AI Discover's continue conversation allows threat actor to impersonate user

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, an endpoint lets any authenticated user bypass the aidiscoverpersona access controls and gain ongoing DM access to personas that may be wired to staff-only categories, RAG document set...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2025-68659 Discourse has DoS vulnerability in username change endpoint

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0 have an application level denial of service vulnerabilityin the username change functionality at try.discourse.org. The vulnerability allows attackers to cause noticeable server delays and...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2025-68479 Discourse subscriptions are susceptible to takeover

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, some subscription endpoints lack proper checking for ownership before making changes. This issue is patched in versions 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0. No known workarounds...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2025-67723 Discourse vulnerable to stored Cross-site Scripting via Katex in discourse-math plugin

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0 have a content-security-policy-mitigated cross-site scriptinv vulnerability on the Discourse Math plugin when using its KaTeX variant. This issue is patched in versions 3.5.4, 2025.11.2,...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2025-66488 Discourse allows script execution in uploaded HTML/XML files on S3

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. A vulnerability present in versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0 affects anyone who uses S3 for uploads. While scripts may be executed, they will only be run in the context of the S3/CDN domain, with no site credentials...

CVE-2025-68660

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, an endpoint lets any authenticated user bypass the aidiscoverpersona access controls and gain ongoing DM access to personas that may be wired to staff-only categories, RAG document set...