Medium
Prevent unauthorized access to summary details in Discourse
Type: advisorySources: OSV
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. User summaries are accessible for anonymous users even when `hide_user_profiles_from_public` is enabled. This problem has been patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2023-44391
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 02:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Prevent unauthorized access to summary details in Discourse
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 16 Oct 2023, 21:22 UTC
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. User summaries are accessible for anonymous users even when `hide_user_profiles_from_public` is enabled. This problem has been patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
osv:CVE-2023-44391
Complete source record
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