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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.3 Medium

CVE-2024-28242

Disclosure of the existence of secret categories with custom backgrounds in Discourse

Description

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can learn that secret categories exist when they have backgrounds set. The issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should temporarily remove category backgrounds.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

discourse discourse

  • stable <= 3.2.0affected
  • beta <= 3.3.0.beta1affected
  • tests-passed <= 3.3.0.beta1affected

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