Discourse users archives leaked to users with moderation privileges
Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, users archives are viewable by users with moderation privileges even though moderators should not have access to the archives. Private topic/post content made by the users are leaked through the archives leading to a breach of confidentiality. This issue is patched in versions 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0. To work around this problem, a site admin can temporarily revoke the moderation role from all moderators until the Discourse instance has been upgraded to a version that has been patched.
Affected products
- ==>= 2025.12.0-latest, 2025.12.1
- ==< 3.5.4
- ==>= 2026.1.0-latest, < 2026.1.0
- ==>= 2025.11.0-latest, < 2025.11.2
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.discourse
Discourse is an open source discussion platform
pkgs.discourseAllPlugins
Discourse is an open source discussion platform
pkgs.discourse-mail-receiver
Helper program which receives incoming mail for Discourse
pkgs.python312Packages.pydiscourse
Python library for working with Discourse
pkgs.python313Packages.pydiscourse
Python library for working with Discourse
pkgs.grafanaPlugins.grafana-discourse-datasource
Allows users to search and view topics, posts, users, tags, categories, and reports on a given Discourse forum through Grafana
Package maintainers
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@talyz Kim Lindberger <kim.lindberger@gmail.com>
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@Dettorer Paul Hervot <paul.hervot@dettorer.net>
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@nagisa Simonas Kazlauskas <nixpkgs@kazlauskas.me>