{"id":75884,"date":"2026-01-28T23:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-21865-discourse-topic-conversion-permission-vulnerability-for-moderators\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:16:14","slug":"cve-2026-21865-discourse-topic-conversion-permission-vulnerability-for-moderators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-21865-discourse-topic-conversion-permission-vulnerability-for-moderators\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-21865 &#8211; Discourse topic conversion permission vulnerability for moderators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-21865<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Jan. 28, 2026, 8:16 p.m. | 51\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, moderators can convert some personal messages to public topics when they shouldn&#8217;t have access. This issue is patched in versions 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0. As a workaround, site admin can temporarily revoke the moderation role from untrusted moderators or remove the moderator group from the &#8220;personal message enabled groups&#8221; site setting until the Discourse instance has been upgraded to a version that has been patched.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 6.5 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-21865 Published : Jan. 28, 2026, 8:16 p.m. | 51\u00a0minutes ago Description : Discourse is an open source discussion platform. In versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0, moderators can convert some personal messages to public topics when they shouldn&#8217;t have access. This issue is patched in versions 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}