CVE-2023-25169: Discourse Yearly Review

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

discourse-yearly-review is a discourse plugin which publishes an automated Year in Review topic. In affected versions a user present in a yearly review topic that is then anonymised will still have some data linked to its original account. This issue has been patched in commit `b3ab33bbf7` which is included in the latest version of the Discourse Yearly Review plugin. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may disable the `yearly_review_enabled` setting to fully mitigate the issue. Also, it's possible to edit the anonymised user's old data in the yearly review topics manually.

Affected products

• Discourse Discourse Yearly Review: before 0.2 (fixed in 0.2)

Published 2023-03-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.