PT-2026-69871

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Discourse versions 2026.1.0-latest through 2026.1.7 Discourse versions 2026.6.0 through 2026.6.2 Discourse versions 2026.7.0 through 2026.7.1 Discourse versions 2026.8.0-latest through 2026.8.0-latest.1 Description Users capable of running...

PT-2026-69861

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Discourse versions prior to 2026.1.6 Discourse versions prior to 2026.5.2 Discourse versions prior to 2026.6.1 Discourse versions prior to 2026.7.0 Description Onebox::DomainChecker.is blocked? performs a case-sensitive comparison between...

CVE-2026-72723: Missing Authorization

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.1.6, 2026.5.2, 2026.6.1, and 2026.7.0, SiteSerializer.anonymousdefaultnavigationmenutags serializes tags from SiteSetting.defaultnavigationmenutags without applying DiscourseTagging.filtervisible for the anonymous viewer. An...

PT-2026-69863

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Discourse versions prior to 2026.1.6 Discourse versions prior to 2026.5.2 Discourse versions prior to 2026.6.1 Discourse versions prior to 2026.7.0 Description An unauthenticated user can retrieve restricted tag names and descriptions through...

CVE-2026-72728: Improper Input Validation

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.1.7, an authenticated user could submit specially formed URLs that bypassed the Onebox allowlist and embedded malicious content in a site. This issue is fixed in versions 2026.1.7, 2026.6.2, 2026.7.1, and 2026.8.0-latest.1...

PT-2026-69868

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Discourse versions prior to 2026.1.7 Description An authenticated user can submit specially formed URLs to bypass the Onebox allowlist, which allows the embedding of malicious content within a site. Onebox is a feature that expands URLs into...

PT-2026-69862

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Discourse versions prior to 2026.1.6 Discourse versions prior to 2026.5.2 Discourse versions prior to 2026.6.1 Discourse versions prior to 2026.7.0 Description An authenticated user can obtain canonicalized slugs or titles of restricted topics...

CVE-2026-72725: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.1.6, the staff action log model rendered unescaped previous and new value fields that could inject stored cross-site scripting into the staff interface. The issue is fixed in 2026.1.6, 2026.5.2, 2026.6.1, and 2026.7.0...

Echoes in the Digital Abyss: Examining the Bubble Surrounding Security and Privacy Discourse in Social Networks

The dissemination of security and privacy education and guidance has been and still remains a challenge today. Social networks represent a potential avenue for sharing best practices, and experimentally they have been found to be effective at this task. While this appears promising, in the real...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2026-55424 Discourse: Topic featured link susceptible to stored XSS

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5, a topic "featured link" was not sufficiently normalized and escaped before being rendered in the topic list, allowing a user who can set a featured link to inject JavaScript when default Content...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2026-53961 Discourse: Forged AWS SNS bounce notifications can disable a targeted user's email (missing TopicArn binding)

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5, the AWS SES bounce webhook at POST /webhooks/aws verified that SNS messages were signed by Amazon but did not bind them to trusted TopicArn values, allowing any AWS account holder to publish...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2026-49256 Discourse: Hidden tag names leaked via category serializers

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5, restricted tag and tag-group names attached to publicly readable categories as allowedtags, allowedtaggroups, or required tag groups could leak to anonymous and unauthorized users through categor...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2026-46413 Discourse: Regular users can route multipart uploads into the admin backup store

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5, regular users could route direct S3 multipart uploads through ExternalUploadManager into the admin backup store. This issue is fixed in versions 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2026-45788 Discourse: Secure uploads exposed by hotlinked image copying

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5, secure uploads could be exposed by pullhotlinkedimages when an attacker knew the secured upload URL and the secureuploads site setting was enabled. This issue is fixed in versions 2026.6.0,...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2026-45780 Discourse: Private event sample invitees are serialized to non-invited event viewers

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5, EventSerializer could expose invited group names, sample invitees, and attendance statistics to users who could view the topic but were not entitled to view the private event invitee list. This...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2026-44787 Discourse: Signup-time primary_group_id assignment grants whisperer access

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5, the signup flow could allow newly registered users to set primarygroupid and gain whisper-group privileges without legitimate group membership on sites with whispersallowedgroups configured. This...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2026-59828 Discourse: Hidden post revisions leak through adjacent visible diffs

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5, post revisions that should be hidden from regular users could be leaked through visible diffs on adjacent revisions serialized by PostRevisionSerializer. This issue is fixed in versions 2026.6.0,...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2026-55420 Discourse: Remote code execution via pdf uploads

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5, under certain non-default configurations, processing of PDF uploads could be exploited to obtain RCE on the server. This issue is patched in 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5...

PT-2026-58902

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5, under certain non-default configurations, processing of PDF uploads could be exploited to obtain RCE on the server. This issue is patched in 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5...

CVE-2026-59828

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5, post revisions that should be hidden from regular users could be leaked through visible diffs on adjacent revisions serialized by PostRevisionSerializer. This issue is fixed in versions 2026.6.0,...