CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-68933

5.4 MEDIUM Published 2026-01-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-01-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-863

Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, non-admin moderators with the `moderators_change_post_ownership` setting enabled can change ownership of posts in private messages and restricted categories they cannot access, then export their data to view the content. This is a broken access control vulnerability affecting sites that grant moderators post ownership transfer permissions. This issue is patched in versions 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0. The patch adds visibility checks for both the topic and posts before allowing ownership transfer. As a workaround, disable the `moderators_change_post_ownership` site setting to prevent non-admin moderators from using the post ownership transfer feature.

Affected configurations

• discourse discourse (< 3.5.4) • discourse discourse (>= 2025.11.0 < 2025.11.2) • discourse discourse 2025.12.0 • discourse discourse 2026.1.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References