CVE-2025-47288 Discourse Policy plugin private group members visible
Attackers can view members of private groups if policies are posted to public topics, exposing sensitive membership data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-47288?
CVE-2025-47288 is a low-severity vulnerability in discourse-policy, published on 29 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Discourse Policy plugin gives the ability to confirm users have seen or done something. Prior to version 0.1.1, if there was a policy posted to a public topic that was tied to a private group then the group members could be shown to non-group members. This issue has been patched in version 0.1.1. A workaround involves moving any policy topics with private groups to restricted categories.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-47288?
How do I fix CVE-2025-47288?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-47288 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-47288 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-47288 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jc5r-rm2j-mh4x.