CVE-2025-68660: Discourse

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, an endpoint lets any authenticated user bypass the ai_discover_persona access controls and gain ongoing DM access to personas that may be wired to staff-only categories, RAG document sets, or automated tooling, enabling unauthorized data disclosure. Because the controller also accepts arbitrary user_id, an attacker can impersonate other accounts to trigger unwanted AI conversations on their behalf, generating confusing or abusive PM traffic. This issue is patched in versions 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0. No known workarounds are available.

Affected products

  • Discourse Discourse: before 3.5.4 (fixed in 3.5.4); from 2025.11.0, before 2025.11.2 (fixed in 2025.11.2); version 2025.12.0 only; version 2026.1.0 only

Published 2026-01-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.