# CVE-2025-49845: Discourse users are able to see their own whispers even after being removed from a group that has been configured to see whispers

- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.4.6, 3.5.0.beta8-dev
- Published: 2025-06-25 · Updated: 2025-06-26

## Affected

- discourse: fixed in 3.4.6; from 3.5.0.beta0-dev, fixed in 3.5.0.beta8-dev

## Description

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. The visibility of posts typed `whisper` is controlled via the `whispers_allowed_groups` site setting. Only users that belong to groups specified in the site setting are allowed to view posts typed `whisper`. However, it has been discovered that users of versions prior to 3.4.6 on the `stable` branch and prior to 3.5.0.beta8-dev on the `tests-passed` branch can continue to see their own whispers even after losing visibility of posts typed `whisper`. This issue is patched in versions 3.4.6 and 3.5.0.beta8-dev. No known workarounds are available.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-79qw-r73r-69gf

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