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CVE-2024-24748

Status: AnalyzedMedium (5.3)—

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions an attacker can learn that a secret subcategory exists under a public category which has no public subcategories. The issue is patched in the latest stable, beta and tests-passed version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Discourse — Discourse

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