Discourse Yearly Review Plugin: Residual Account Data after Anonymization
CVE-2023-25169 Published on March 6, 2023
Yearly Review Plugin leaking anonymised users data in discourse-yearly-review
discourse-yearly-review is a discourse plugin which publishes an automated Year in Review topic. In affected versions a user present in a yearly review topic that is then anonymised will still have some data linked to its original account. This issue has been patched in commit `b3ab33bbf7` which is included in the latest version of the Discourse Yearly Review plugin. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may disable the `yearly_review_enabled` setting to fully mitigate the issue. Also, it's possible to edit the anonymised user's old data in the yearly review topics manually.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2023-25169 can be exploited with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality, a small impact on integrity and availability.
Weakness Type
What is an Information Disclosure Vulnerability?
The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
CVE-2023-25169 has been classified to as an Information Disclosure vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2023-25169
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Affected Versions
discourse-yearly-review Version < 0.2 is affected by CVE-2023-25169Exploit Probability
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