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CVE-2026-26973

Discourse doesn't scope reviewable notes to user-visible reviewables

Summary

Discourse doesn't scope reviewable notes to user-visible reviewables

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Versions prior to 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0 have an IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference) in ReviewableNotesController. When enable_category_group_moderation is enabled, a user belonging to a category moderation group can create or delete their own notes on any reviewable in the system, including reviewables in categories they do not moderate. The controller used an unscoped Reviewable.find and the ensure_can_see guard only checked whether the user could access the review queue in general, not whether they could access the specific reviewable. Only instances with enable_category_group_moderation enabled are affected. Staff users (admins/moderators) are not impacted as they already have access to all reviewables. The issue is patched in versions 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0 by scoping the reviewable lookup through Reviewable.viewable_by(current_user). As a workaround, disable the enable_category_group_moderation site setting. This removes the attack surface as only staff users will have access to the review queue.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV

Affected packages

Bitnami discourse
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References

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