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High · 8.2 CVE-2026-29072 EUVD-2026-13245

Discourse missing permission check for policy creation in discourse-policy

Published Mar 19, 2026 · Updated Mar 20, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2, users who do not belong to the allowed policy creation groups can create functional policy acceptance widgets in posts under the right conditions. Versions 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 contain a patch. As a workaround, disable the discourse-policy plugin by disabling the `policy_enabled` site setting.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
discourse discourse >= 2026.1.0-latest, < 2026.1.2, >= 2026.2.0-latest, < 2026.2.1, = 2026.3.0-latest —

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