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  • Medium 4.3

    Discourse doesn't scope reviewable notes to user-visible reviewables

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Versions prior to 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0 have an IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference) in `ReviewableNotesController`. When `enable_category_group_moderation` is enabled, a user belonging to a cate…

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2026-26265 Scanner template

    Discourse has IDOR vulnerability in the directory items endpoint

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0, an IDOR vulnerability in the directory items endpoint allows any user, including anonymous users, to retrieve private user field values for all users in the …

  • Medium 5.4

    DIscourse's discourse-policy plugin lacks post access check

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0, `discourse-policy` plugin allows any authenticated user to interact with policies on posts they do not have permission to view. The `PolicyController` loads …

  • High 7.5

    Discourse has authentication bypass vulnerability in the Patreon plugin webhook endpoint

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0, when the `patreon_webhook_secret` site setting is blank, an attacker can forge valid webhook signatures by computing an HMAC-MD5 with an empty string as the …

  • Medium 6.5
    CVE-2026-26077 Scanner template

    Discourse doesn't ensure webhooks require a token

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0, several webhook endpoints (SendGrid, Mailjet, Mandrill, Postmark, SparkPost) in the `WebhooksController` accepted requests without a valid authentication tok…

  • Medium 6.5

    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…

  • Medium 6.9

    Discourse allows permalinks to restricted resources to leak resource slugs to unauthorized users

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, permalinks pointing to access-restricted resources (private topics, categories, posts, or hidden tags) were redirecting users to URLs containing t…

  • Medium 6.5

    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…

  • Medium 5.1

    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. T…

  • High 7.1

    Discourse moderators can access admin-only reports exposing private upload URLs

    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 access the `top_uploads` admin report which should be restricted to admins only. This report displays direct URLs to all uploaded f…

  • Medium 6.5

    Discourse Has Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability in Drafts Creation Endpoint

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, authenticated users can submit crafted payloads to /drafts.json that cause O(n^2) processing in Base62.decode, tying up workers for 35-60 seconds …

  • Medium 6.9

    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 `moderators_change_post_ownership` setting enabled can change ownership of posts in private messages and restricted …

  • Medium 5.9

    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 …

  • High 7.6

    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…

  • Medium 5.3

    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 ai_discover_persona access controls and gain ongoing DM access to personas that may be wired to…

  • Medium 4.3

    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…

  • High 7.1

    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.…

  • Medium 4.6

    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 p…

  • Medium 4.6

    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 d…

  • Medium 6.3

    Users are able to find users by name even when `enable_names` is off

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to versions 3.5.3, 2025.11.1, and 2025.12.0, an attacker who knows part of a username can find the user and their full name via UI or API, even when `enable_names` is disabled. Versions 3.5.3, 2025.11.1, …

  • Medium 6.3

    Discourse is missing Cache-Control response header on error responses

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Version before 3.6.2 and 3.6.0.beta2, default Cache-Control response header with value no-store, no-cache was missing from error responses. This may caused unintended caching of those responses by proxies poten…

  • Medium 5.5

    Discourse: Cross-Site Data Exposure via Backup Restore Metacommand Injection in Multisite Deployments

    Discourse is an open-source community discussion platform. In versions 3.5.0 and below, malicious meta-commands could be embedded in a backup dump and executed during restore. In multisite setups, this allowed an admin of one site to access data or credential…

  • Medium 4.3

    Discourse AI Suggestions Contain Insecure Direct Object Reference

    Discourse is an open-source community discussion platform. In versions 3.5.0 and below, the Discourse AI suggestion endpoints for topic “Title”, “Category”, and “Tags” allowed authenticated users to extract information about topics that they weren’t authorize…

  • Low 3.5

    Discourse is vulnerable to XSS when quoting chat messages

    Discourse is an open-source community discussion platform. Versions 3.5.0 and below are vulnerable to XSS attacks through parsing and rendering of chat channel titles and chat thread titles via the quote message functionality when using the rich text editor. …

  • Low 2.4

    Discourse welcome banner user name XSS

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Welcome banner user name string for logged in users can be vulnerable to XSS attacks, which affect the user themselves or an admin impersonating them. Admins can temporarily alter the welcome_banner.header.logg…

  • High 8.2

    Discourse's WebAuthn challenge isn't cleared from user session after authentication

    Discourse is an open-source community discussion platform. Prior to version 3.4.7 on the `stable` branch and version 3.5.0.beta.8 on the `tests-passed` branch, upon issuing a physical security key for 2FA, the server generates a WebAuthn challenge, which the …

  • Medium 6.3

    Discourse users are able to see their own whispers even after being removed from a group that has been configured to see whispers

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. The visibility of posts typed `whisper` is controlled via the `whispers_allowed_groups` site setting. Only users that belong to groups specified in the site setting are allowed to view posts typed `whisper`. Ho…

  • High 8.1
    CVE-2025-48954 Scanner template

    Discourse vulnerable to XSS via user-provided query parameter in oauth failure flow

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Versions prior to 3.5.0.beta6 are vulnerable to cross-site scripting when the content security policy isn't enabled when using social logins. Version 3.5.0.beta6 patches the issue. As a workaround, have the con…

  • High 8.1

    Discourse vulnerable to auto-executing of third-party code in embedded CodePen iframe

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.4.4 of the `stable` branch, version 3.5.0.beta5 of the `beta` branch, and version 3.5.0.beta6-dev of the `tests-passed` branch, Codepen is present in the default `allowed_iframes` site settin…

  • High 7.1

    Discourse vulnerable to HTML injection when inviting to topic via email

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.4.4 of the `stable` branch, version 3.5.0.beta5 of the `beta` branch, and version 3.5.0.beta6-dev of the `tests-passed` branch, certain invites via email may result in HTML injection in the e…

  • High 8.7

    Discourse vulnerable to DoS via large URL payload in PM to a bot

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.4.4 of the `stable` branch, version 3.5.0.beta5 of the `beta` branch, and version 3.5.0.beta6-dev of the `tests-passed` branch, sending a malicious URL in a PM to a bot user can cause a reduc…

  • Low 3.5

    Discourse Policy plugin private group members visible

    Discourse Policy plugin gives the ability to confirm users have seen or done something. Prior to version 0.1.1, if there was a policy posted to a public topic that was tied to a private group then the group members could be shown to non-group members. This is…

  • Low 3.1

    Discourse Code Review Plugin vulnerable to XSS via auto link commits

    The Discourse Code Review Plugin allows users to review GitHub commits on Discourse. Prior to commit eed3a80, an attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript on users' browsers by posting links to malicious GitHub commits. This problem is patched in commit eed3a…

  • Medium 5.8

    Private data leak on login-required Discourse sites

    Discourse is an open-source community platform. A data leak vulnerability affects sites deployed between commits 10df7fdee060d44accdee7679d66d778d1136510 and 82d84af6b0efbd9fa2aeec3e91ce7be1a768511b. On login-required sites, the leak meant that some content o…

  • Medium 4.8

    Discourse DM limits aren’t always properly enforced

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to versions 3.4.3 on the stable branch and 3.5.0.beta3 on the beta branch, the users limit for a DM can be bypassed, thus giving the ability to potentially create a DM with every user from a site in it. T…

  • Medium 4.3

    Discourse may bypass user preference when adding users to chat groups

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to versions `3.3.4` on the `stable` branch and `3.4.0.beta5` on the `beta` branch, in specific circumstances, users could be added to group direct messages despite disabling direct messaging in their pref…

  • Medium 4.3

    Discourse has race condition when adding users to a group DM

    Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to versions `3.3.4` on the `stable` branch and `3.4.0.beta5` on the `beta` branch, someone who is about to reach the limit of users in a group DM may send requests to add new users in parallel. The reques…

  • Medium 4.3

    Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via topic titles when CSP disabled in Discourse

    Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions with some combinations of plugins, and with CSP disabled, activity streams in the user's profile page may be vulnerable to XSS. This has been patched in the latest version of …

  • Medium 4.3

    Partial denial of service via inline oneboxes in Discourse

    Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions the endpoint for generating inline oneboxes for URLs wasn't enforcing limits on the number of URLs that it accepted, allowing a malicious user to inflict denial of service on …

  • Medium 4.3

    Potential bypass of chat permissions in Discourse

    Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions users who disable chat in preferences could still be reachable in some cases. This problem has been patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. U…