Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Jul 27, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-32788
CVE-2021-32788
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.
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Affected products
4cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <2.7.7
- (no CPE)range: <2.7.7
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.7
Patches
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References
3- github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/680024f9071b7696e5a444a58791016c6dc1f1e5nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dbdf61196d9e964e8823793d2e7f856595fea4d9nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-v6xg-q577-vc92nvdThird Party Advisory
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