What is CVE-2023-25169?

CVE-2023-25169 is a vulnerability in the discourse-yearly-review plugin that allows data to remain linked to an anonymized account in a Year in Review topic.

How severe is CVE-2023-25169?

CVE-2023-25169 has a severity score of 5.3, which is considered medium.

How does CVE-2023-25169 affect discourse-yearly-review?

In affected versions of discourse-yearly-review (up to and excluding 0.2), a user present in a Year in Review topic that is then anonymized may still have some data linked to their original account.

Is there a patch available for CVE-2023-25169?

Yes, a patch for CVE-2023-25169 has been released in commit b3ab33bbf7.

Where can I find more information about CVE-2023-25169?

You can find more information about CVE-2023-25169 on the GitHub security advisory page at https://github.com/discourse/discourse-yearly-review/security/advisories/GHSA-x2r8-v85c-x3x7.

Vulnerability/
CVE-2023-25169

medium

5.3

CWE

200

6/3/2023

2/8/2024

CVE-2023-25169: Yearly Review Plugin leaking anonymised users data in discourse-yearly-review

First published: Mon Mar 06 2023(Updated: )

discourse-yearly-review is a discourse plugin which publishes an automated Year in Review topic. In affected versions a user present in a yearly review topic that is then anonymised will still have some data linked to its original account. This issue has been patched in commit `b3ab33bbf7` which is included in the latest version of the Discourse Yearly Review plugin. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may disable the `yearly_review_enabled` setting to fully mitigate the issue. Also, it's possible to edit the anonymised user's old data in the yearly review topics manually.

Credit: security-advisories@github.com

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
Discourse Discourse Yearly Review	<0.2

Remedy

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-yearly-review/commit/b3ab33bbf7130fca54764cf0336395a8a1eeaf3c

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What is CVE-2023-25169?
CVE-2023-25169 is a vulnerability in the discourse-yearly-review plugin that allows data to remain linked to an anonymized account in a Year in Review topic.
How severe is CVE-2023-25169?
CVE-2023-25169 has a severity score of 5.3, which is considered medium.
How does CVE-2023-25169 affect discourse-yearly-review?
In affected versions of discourse-yearly-review (up to and excluding 0.2), a user present in a Year in Review topic that is then anonymized may still have some data linked to their original account.
Is there a patch available for CVE-2023-25169?
Yes, a patch for CVE-2023-25169 has been released in commit b3ab33bbf7.
Where can I find more information about CVE-2023-25169?
You can find more information about CVE-2023-25169 on the GitHub security advisory page at https://github.com/discourse/discourse-yearly-review/security/advisories/GHSA-x2r8-v85c-x3x7.

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