CVE-2026-44780: Discourse

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. From versions 2026.1.0-latest to before 2026.1.4, 2026.3.0-latest to before 2026.3.1, and 2026.4.0-latest to before 2026.4.1, ReviewableQueuedPostSerializer unconditionally included payload["raw_email"] for posts that arrived via incoming email. Category moderation group members reaching the review queue could therefore read the full inbound email source (headers, sender trace, MUA, body) without being in view_raw_email_allowed_groups — the trust boundary that gates the dedicated raw-email endpoint. This issue has been patched in versions 2026.1.4, 2026.3.1, 2026.4.1, and 2026.5.0-latest.1.

Affected products

• Discourse Discourse: before 2026.1.0 (fixed in 2026.1.0); from 2026.1.0, before 2026.1.4 (fixed in 2026.1.4); from 2026.3.0, before 2026.3.1 (fixed in 2026.3.1); from 2026.4.0, before 2026.4.1 (fixed in 2026.4.1); version 2026.5.0 only

Published 2026-06-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.