BIT-DISCOURSE-2021-32788 Post creator of a whisper post can be revealed to non-staff users in Discourse

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 2.7.7 there are two bugs which led to the post creator of a whisper post being revealed to non-staff users. 1: Staff users that creates a whisper post in a personal message is revealed to non-staff participants of the personal...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2021-37633 XSS via d-popover and d-html-popover attribute

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 2.7.8 rendering of d-popover tooltips can be susceptible to XSS attacks. This vulnerability only affects sites which have modified or disabled Discourse's default Content Security Policy. This issue is patched in the latest...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2021-37693 Re-use of email tokens in Discourse

Discourse is an open-source platform for community discussion. In Discourse before versions 2.7.8 and 2.8.0.beta4, when adding additional email addresses to an existing account on a Discourse site an email token is generated as part of the email verification process. Deleting the additional email...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2021-37703 Information exposure in Discourse

Discourse is an open-source platform for community discussion. In Discourse before versions 2.7.8 and 2.8.0.beta5, a user's read state for a topic such as the last read post number and the notification level is exposed...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2021-41163 RCE via malicious SNS subscription payload

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions maliciously crafted requests could lead to remote code execution. This resulted from a lack of validation in subscribeurl values. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed versions of...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2021-41271 Cache poisoning via maliciously-formed request in discourse

Discourse is a platform for community discussion. In affected versions a maliciously crafted request could cause an error response to be cached by intermediate proxies. This could cause a loss of confidentiality for some content. This issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2021-43792 Notifications leak in Discourse

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a vulnerability affects users of tag groups who use the "Tags are visible only to the following groups" feature. A tag group may only allow a certain group e.g. staff to view certain tags. Users who were tracking or watching th...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2021-43793 Bypass of Poll voting limits in Discourse

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In affected versions a vulnerability in the Polls feature allowed users to vote multiple times in a single-option poll. The problem is patched in the latest tests-passed, beta and stable versions of Discourse...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2021-43794 Anonymous user cache poisoning via development-mode header in Discourse

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In affected versions an attacker can poison the cache for anonymous i.e. not logged in users, such that the users are shown a JSON blob instead of the HTML page. This can lead to a partial denial-of-service. This issue is patched in the latest...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2021-43850 Denial of Service in discourse

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions admins users can trigger a Denial of Service attack via the /message-bus/diagnostics path. The impact of this vulnerability is greater on multisite Discourse instances where multiple forums are served from a singl...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-21677 Group advanced search option may leak group and group's members visibility

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Discourse groups can be configured with varying visibility levels for the group as well as the group members. By default, a newly created group has its visibility set to public and the group's members visibility set to public as well. However, a...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-21678 User's bio visible even if profile is restricted in Discourse

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.0.beta11 in the tests-passed branch, version 2.8.0.beta11 in the beta branch, and version 2.7.13 in the stable branch, the bios of users who made their profiles private were still visible in the tags on their users' pages. The...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-21684 User can bypass approval when invited to Discourse

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Versions prior to 2.7.13 in stable, 2.8.0.beta11 in beta, and 2.8.0.beta11 in tests-passed allow some users to log in to a community before they should be able to do so. A user invited via email to a forum with mustapproveusers enabled is going to ...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-23546 Discourse vulnerable to private topic leak via email#send_digest

In version 2.9.0.beta14 of Discourse, an open-source discussion platform, maliciously embedded urls can leak an admin's digest of recent topics, possibly exposing private information. A patch is available for version 2.9.0.beta15. There are no known workarounds for this issue...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-23548

Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the stable branch, parsing posts can be susceptible to regular expression denial of service ReDoS attacks. This issue is patched in version 2.8.14. There are no known workarounds...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-23549 Discourse vulnerable to bypass of post max_length using HTML comments

Discourse is an option source discussion platform. Prior to version 2.8.14 on the stable branch and version 2.9.0.beta16 on the beta and tests-passed branches, users can create posts with raw body longer than the maxlength site setting by including html comments that are not counted toward the...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-23641 Denial of Service in Discourse

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 2.8.1 in the stable branch, 2.9.0.beta2 in the beta branch, and 2.9.0.beta2 in the tests-passed branch, users can trigger a Denial of Service attack by posting a streaming URL. Parsing Oneboxes in the background job trigger an...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-24804 Private group name exposure in discourse

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In stable versions prior to 2.8.3 and beta versions prior 2.9.0.beta4 erroneously expose groups. When a group with restricted visibility has been used to set the permissions of a category, the name of the group is leaked to any user...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-24824 Anonymous user cache poisoning in discourse

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can poison the cache for anonymous i.e. not logged in users, such that the users are shown the crawler view of the site instead of the HTML page. This can lead to a partial denial-of-service. This issu...

BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-24850 Category group permissions leaked in Discourse

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. A category's group permissions settings can be viewed by anyone that has access to the category. As a result, a normal user is able to see whether a group has read/write permissions in the category even though the information should...