CVE-2023-43814

Exposure of poll options and votes to unauthorized users in Discourse

Published Oct 16, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 3.7 Low EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Attackers with details specific to a poll in a topic can use the `/polls/grouped_poll_results` endpoint to view the content of options in the poll and the number of votes for groups of poll participants. This impacts private polls where the results were intended to only be viewable by authorized users. This issue is patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 versions of Discourse. There is no workaround for this issue apart from upgrading to the fixed version.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-48179 Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Attackers with details specific to a poll in a topic can use the `/polls/grouped_poll_results` endpoint to view the content of options in the poll and the number of votes for groups of poll participants. This impacts private polls where the results were intended to only be viewable by authorized users. This issue is patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 versions of Discourse. There is no workaround for this issue apart from upgrading to the fixed version.
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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Sep 13, 2024, 6:59 PM
Reserved
Sep 22, 2023, 2:51 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 16, 2023, 10:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 6:26 AM