Discourse missing permission check for policy creation in di… (CVE-2026-29072)

Summary

Discourse missing permission check for policy creation in discourse-policy

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2026.3.0, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2, users who do not belong to the allowed policy creation groups can create functional policy acceptance widgets in posts under the right conditions. Versions 2026.3.0, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 contain a patch. As a workaround, disable the discourse-policy plugin by disabling the policy_enabled site setting.

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

Affected packages

Bitnami discourse

[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"2026.1.0"},{"fixed":"2026.1.2"},{"introduced":"2026.2.0"},{"fixed":"2026.2.1"},{"introduced":"2026.3.0"},{"fixed":"2026.4.0"}]}]

References

advisory github.com
web nvd.nist.gov