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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2025-49845 EUVD-2025-19108

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

Published Jun 25, 2025 · Updated Jun 26, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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`. However, it has been discovered that users of versions prior to 3.4.6 on the `stable` branch and prior to 3.5.0.beta8-dev on the `tests-passed` branch can continue to see their own whispers even after losing visibility of posts typed `whisper`. This issue is patched in versions 3.4.6 and 3.5.0.beta8-dev. No known workarounds are available.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse < 3.4.6, >= 3.5.0.beta0-dev, < 3.5.0.beta8-dev —

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