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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2022-39385 EUVD-2022-41841

Users erroneously and transparently added to private messages in Discourse

Published Nov 14, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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 resolved in commit `a414520742` and will be included in future releases. Users are advised to upgrade. Users are also advised to set `SiteSetting.max_invites_per_day` to 0 until the patch is installed.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse Stable: <= 2.8.10, Beta: <= 2.9.0.beta11 —

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