BIT-DISCOURSE-2022-39385 Users erroneously and transparently added to private messages in Discourse

Discourse is the an open source discussion platform. In some rare cases users redeeming an invitation can be added as a participant to several private message topics that they should not be added to. They are not notified of this, it happens transparently in the background. This issue has been...

CVE-2022-39385

Discourse CVE-2022-39385 (open source platform) describes a rare issue where invited users could be added as participants to several private message topics without notification. The root cause is not explicitly detailed beyond being resolved in commit a414520742, with remediation via upgrading to...