CVE-2026-27021

Discourse: Poll voters endpoint lacked post visibility checks

State: Published
Severity: 6.9 Medium
Published: Feb 26, 2026
Updated: Feb 28, 2026
Reserved: Feb 17, 2026

Description

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0, the voters endpoint in the poll plugin lacked post visibility checks which allowed unauthorized access to voters details of polls in any post. Versions 2025.12.2, 2026.1.1, and 2026.2.0 patch the issue. No known workarounds are available.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	6.9 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
discoursediscourse	< 2025.12.2Affected >= 2026.1.0-latest, < 2026.1.1Affected >= 2026.2.0-latest, < 2026.2.0Affected

References

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-f5m5-9hpw-7c2g

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