Description
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In stable versions prior to 2.8.3 and beta versions prior 2.9.0.beta4 erroneously expose groups. When a group with restricted visibility has been used to set the permissions of a category, the name of the group is leaked to any user that is able to see the category. To workaround the problem, a site administrator can remove groups with restricted visibility from any category's permissions setting.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-v4c9-6m9g-37ff
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0f7b9878ff3207ce20970f0517604793920bb3d2
Scores
CVSS v3
5.3
EPSS
0.0019
EPSS Percentile
41.1%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-276
CWE-200
Status
published
Products (2)
discourse/discourse
2.9.0 beta1 (3 CPE variants)
discourse/discourse
< 2.8.3
Published
Apr 11, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026