Vulnerability · Published Jun 25, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2025-49845Discourse users are able to see their own whispers even after being removed from a group that has been configured to see whispers

Medium 6.3

In plain English

A medium-severity information exposure in discourse from discourse. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 35% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)6.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 65.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. The visibility of posts typed `whisper` is controlled via the `whispers_allowed_groups` site setting. Only users that belong to groups specified in the site setting are allowed to view posts typed `whisper`. However, it has been discovered that users of versions prior to 3.4.6 on the `stable` branch and prior to 3.5.0.beta8-dev on the `tests-passed` branch can continue to see their own whispers even after losing visibility of posts typed `whisper`. This issue is patched in versions 3.4.6 and 3.5.0.beta8-dev. No known workarounds are available.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
discourse	discourse	< 3.4.6>= 3.5.0.beta0-dev, < 3.5.0.beta8-dev

Weakness: CWE-200 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-79qw-r73r-69gf x_refsource_CONFIRM