Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2, users who do not belong to the allowed policy creation groups can create functional policy acceptance widgets in posts under the right conditions. Versions 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 contain a patch. As a workaround, disable the discourse-policy plugin by disabling the `policy_enabled` site setting.
History

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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First Time appeared Discourse
Discourse discourse
Vendors & Products Discourse
Discourse discourse

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Description Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to versions 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2, users who do not belong to the allowed policy creation groups can create functional policy acceptance widgets in posts under the right conditions. Versions 2026.3.0-latest.1, 2026.2.1, and 2026.1.2 contain a patch. As a workaround, disable the discourse-policy plugin by disabling the `policy_enabled` site setting.
Title Discourse missing permission check for policy creation in discourse-policy
Weaknesses CWE-862
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2026-03-19T21:49:33.865Z

Updated: 2026-03-20T16:27:46.085Z

Reserved: 2026-03-03T20:51:43.482Z

Link: CVE-2026-29072

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-03-20T16:27:42.504Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-03-19T22:16:31.477

Modified: 2026-03-20T13:39:46.493

Link: CVE-2026-29072

cve-icon Redhat

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