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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-03-27 07:10

Modified

2026-03-27 07:40

Summary

Discourse has moderator privilege escalation via arbitrary post_id in suspend/silence endpoint

Details

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Versions prior to 2026.3.0, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 allow a moderator to edit site policy documents (ToS, guidelines, privacy policy) that they are explicitly prohibited from modifying. Versions 2026.3.0, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 contain a patch. No known workarounds are available.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "discourse",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/discourse"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2026.3.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-30888"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Versions prior to 2026.3.0, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 allow a moderator to edit site policy documents (ToS, guidelines, privacy policy) that they are explicitly prohibited from modifying. Versions 2026.3.0, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 contain a patch. No known workarounds are available.",
  "id": "BIT-discourse-2026-30888",
  "modified": "2026-03-27T07:40:55.991Z",
  "published": "2026-03-27T07:10:23.855Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-jj9p-p7m6-jq96"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-30888"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Discourse has moderator privilege escalation via arbitrary post_id in suspend/silence endpoint"
}

CVE-2026-30888 (GCVE-0-2026-30888)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-20 02:55 – Updated: 2026-03-21 02:54

Title

Discourse has moderator privilege escalation via arbitrary post_id in suspend/silence endpoint

Summary

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Versions prior to 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 allow a moderator to edit site policy documents (ToS, guidelines, privacy policy) that they are explicitly prohibited from modifying. Versions 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 contain a patch. No known workarounds are available.

Severity ?

2.2 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

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

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	discourse	discourse	Affected: < 2026.3.0-latest.1 Affected: >= 2026.2.0-latest, < 2026.2.1 Affected: >= 2026.1.0-latest, < 2026.1.2

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                "timestamp": "2026-03-21T02:54:20.305999Z",
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Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2026-30888 (GCVE-0-2026-30888)

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