VulnerabilityAnalyzed

CVE-2025-49845

The visibility of posts typed `whisper` is controlled via the `whispers_allowed_groups` site setting.

MEDIUM 6.3EPSS 0.34%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.34%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. The visibility of posts typed `whisper` is controlled via the `whispers_allowed_groups` site setting. Only users that belong to groups specified in the site setting are allowed to view posts typed `whisper`. However, it has been discovered that users of versions prior to 3.4.6 on the `stable` branch and prior to 3.5.0.beta8-dev on the `tests-passed` branch can continue to see their own whispers even after losing visibility of posts typed `whisper`. This issue is patched in versions 3.4.6 and 3.5.0.beta8-dev. No known workarounds are available.

CVSS 4.0: 6.3 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS: 0.34% probability · 27th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-200
Affected: discourse/discourse
Source: security-advisories@github.com

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-79qw-r73r-69gfVendor Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.