Discourse has moderator privilege escalation via arbitrary post_id in suspend/silence endpoint

published 2026-03-20 7 mo ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-discourse-2026-30888 , EUVD-2026-13488 , GHSA-jj9p-p7m6-jq96

cvss: 2.2; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 14%
public exploits: 0; none known

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Versions prior to 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 allow a moderator to edit site policy documents (ToS, guidelines, privacy policy) that they are explicitly prohibited from modifying. Versions 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 contain a patch. No known workarounds are available.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2

bitnami discourse 2026.3.0
discourse discourse 2026.1.2, 2026.2.1, 2026.3.0-latest.1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 7 mo ago (2026-03-21)

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	2.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
OSV	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
bitnami	discourse	<2026.3.0	2026.3.0

Affected products

discourse discourse

Classification

Weakness

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

github.com /discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-jj9p-p7m6-jq96
vendor-advisory, advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2026-30888
web

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.

Summary