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Moderators can view Screened emails even when the “moderators view emails” option is disabled in Discourse

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Moderators can see the Screened emails list in the admin dashboard, and through that can learn the email of a user. This problem is patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users unable to upgrade should remove moderator role from untrusted users.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2024-52589
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
3 Nov 2026, 17:45 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Moderators can view Screened emails even when the “moderators view emails” option is disabled in Discourse

core-osv · Original source

Published 19 Dec 2024, 19:13 UTC

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Moderators can see the Screened emails list in the admin dashboard, and through that can learn the email of a user. This problem is patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users unable to upgrade should remove moderator role from untrusted users.

osv:CVE-2024-52589
Complete source record
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    "summary": "Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Moderators can see the Screened emails list in the admin dashboard, and through that can learn the email of a user. This problem is patched in the latest version of Discourse. Users unable to upgrade should remove moderator role from untrusted users.",
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