CVE-2024-28242

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.11%

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

Published: 4/1/2024Modified: 10/15/2025

Also known as:GHSA-c7q7-7f6q-2c23BIT-discourse-2024-28242

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 packages (1)

Bitnami/discoursefrom 0, < 3.2.1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References (3)

WEBhttps://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b425fbc2a28341a5627928f963519006712c3d39
WEBhttps://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-c7q7-7f6q-2c23
WEBhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28242