CVE-2025-69218

Discourse moderators can access admin-only reports exposing private upload URLs

State: Published
Severity: 7.1 High
Published: Jan 28, 2026
Updated: Jan 28, 2026
Reserved: Dec 29, 2025

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, moderators can access the `top_uploads` admin report which should be restricted to admins only. This report displays direct URLs to all uploaded files on the site, including sensitive content such as user data exports, admin backups, and other private attachments that moderators should not have access to. This issue is patched in versions 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0. There is no workaround. Limit moderator privileges to trusted users until the patch is applied.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.1 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
discoursediscourse	< 3.5.4Affected >= 2025.11.0-latest, < 2025.11.2Affected >= 2025.12.0-latest, < 2025.12.1Affected >= 2026.1.0-latest, < 2026.1.0Affected

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-79f9-j8h4-3w6w

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