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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-03-27 07:10

Modified

2026-03-31 21:15

Summary

Discourse missing permission check for policy creation in discourse-policy

Details

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2026.3.0, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2, users who do not belong to the allowed policy creation groups can create functional policy acceptance widgets in posts under the right conditions. Versions 2026.3.0, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 contain a patch. As a workaround, disable the discourse-policy plugin by disabling the policy_enabled site setting.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "discourse",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/discourse"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "2026.1.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2026.1.2"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "2026.2.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2026.2.1"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "2026.3.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2026.4.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/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/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
          "type": "CVSS_V4"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-29072"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:latest:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2026.3.0, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2, users who do not belong to the allowed policy creation groups can create functional policy acceptance widgets in posts under the right conditions. Versions 2026.3.0, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 contain a patch. As a workaround, disable the discourse-policy plugin by disabling the `policy_enabled` site setting.",
  "id": "BIT-discourse-2026-29072",
  "modified": "2026-03-31T21:15:21.591Z",
  "published": "2026-03-27T07:10:21.008Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-7ph8-vprq-4jrp"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-29072"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Discourse missing permission check for policy creation in discourse-policy"
}

CVE-2026-29072 (GCVE-0-2026-29072)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-19 21:49 – Updated: 2026-03-20 16:27

Title

Discourse missing permission check for policy creation in discourse-policy

Summary

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2, users who do not belong to the allowed policy creation groups can create functional policy acceptance widgets in posts under the right conditions. Versions 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 contain a patch. As a workaround, disable the discourse-policy plugin by disabling the `policy_enabled` site setting.

Severity ?

8.2 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/a…

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	discourse	discourse	Affected: >= 2026.1.0-latest, < 2026.1.2 Affected: >= 2026.2.0-latest, < 2026.2.1 Affected: = 2026.3.0-latest

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2026-29072 (GCVE-0-2026-29072)

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