Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 27, 2021· Updated Aug 3, 2024
Post creator of a whisper post can be revealed to non-staff users in Discourse
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.
Affected products
1- Range: < 2.7.7
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
3- github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/680024f9071b7696e5a444a58791016c6dc1f1e5mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dbdf61196d9e964e8823793d2e7f856595fea4d9mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-v6xg-q577-vc92mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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