Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 11, 2022· Updated Apr 23, 2025
Private group name exposure in discourse
CVE-2022-24804
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.
Affected products
1- Range: < 2.8.3
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
2- github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0f7b9878ff3207ce20970f0517604793920bb3d2mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-v4c9-6m9g-37ffmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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