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CVE-2022-21642: Exposure of whisper participants in discourse

First published: Wed Jan 05 2022(Updated: )

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions when composing a message from topic the composer user suggestions reveals whisper participants. The issue has been patched in stable version 2.7.13 and beta version 2.8.0.beta11. There is no workaround for this issue and users are advised to upgrade.

Credit: security-advisories@github.com security-advisories@github.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Discourse Discourse<2.7.13
Discourse Discourse=2.8.0-beta1
Discourse Discourse=2.8.0-beta10
Discourse Discourse=2.8.0-beta2
Discourse Discourse=2.8.0-beta3
Discourse Discourse=2.8.0-beta4
Discourse Discourse=2.8.0-beta5
Discourse Discourse=2.8.0-beta6
Discourse Discourse=2.8.0-beta7
Discourse Discourse=2.8.0-beta8
Discourse Discourse=2.8.0-beta9
<2.7.13
=2.8.0-beta1
=2.8.0-beta10
=2.8.0-beta2
=2.8.0-beta3
=2.8.0-beta4
=2.8.0-beta5
=2.8.0-beta6
=2.8.0-beta7
=2.8.0-beta8
=2.8.0-beta9

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