# CVE-2026-47196: Quest Bot: Empty automod rule causes every guild message to be deleted

- Severity: CVSS 8.4 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:H/SA:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.1.6
- Published: 2026-06-12 · Updated: 2026-06-12

## Affected

- duck-organization questbot: fixed in 1.1.6

## Description

Quest Bot is an opensource Discord Bot. Prior to version 1.1.6, the automod add command trims user input but does not reject an empty result. Adding a rule containing only whitespace stores an empty word. The message listener later checks content.includes(""), which is always true, causing the bot to delete every non-bot guild message. This issue has been patched in version 1.1.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on duck-organization questbot, upgrade to a fixed version (1.1.6) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/duck-organization/questbot/security/advisories/GHSA-fgwg-6px5-cxp5
- https://github.com/duck-organization/questbot/releases/tag/questbot-v1.1.6

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