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Presence of restricted personal Discourse messages may be leaked if tagged with a tag

Published Mar 16, 2023

Description

Discourse is an open-source messaging platform. In versions 3.0.1 and prior on the `stable` branch and versions 3.1.0.beta2 and prior on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, the count of personal messages displayed for a tag is a count of all personal messages regardless of whether the personal message is visible to a given user. As a result, any users can technically poll a sensitive tag to determine if a new personal message is created even if the user does not have access to the personal message.

In the patched versions, the count of personal messages tagged with a given tag is hidden by default. To revert to the old behaviour of displaying the count of personal messages for a given tag, an admin may enable the `display_personal_messages_tag_counts` site setting.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner GitHub_M
Published Mar 16, 2023
Updated Feb 25, 2025
Reserved Jan 19, 2023
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Feb 25, 2025
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a