Description
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 2.7.7 there are two bugs which led to the post creator of a whisper post being revealed to non-staff users. 1: Staff users that creates a whisper post in a personal message is revealed to non-staff participants of the personal message even though the whisper post cannot be seen by them. 2: When a whisper post is before the last post in a post stream, deleting the last post will result in the creator of the whisper post to be revealed to non-staff users as the last poster of the topic.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-v6xg-q577-vc92
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/680024f9071b7696e5a444a58791016c6dc1f1e5
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dbdf61196d9e964e8823793d2e7f856595fea4d9
Scores
CVSS v3
4.3
EPSS
0.0039
EPSS Percentile
60.1%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-668
Status
published
Products (1)
discourse/discourse
< 2.7.7
Published
Jul 27, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026