{"id":"CVE-2025-69289","summary":"Discourse has insecure default configuration that allows non-admin moderators to takeover any non-staff account via email change","details":"Discourse is an open source discussion platform. A privilege escalation vulnerability in versions prior to 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0 allows a non-admin moderator to bypass email-change restrictions, allowing a takeover of non-staff accounts. This issue is patched in versions 3.5.4, 2025.11.2, 2025.12.1, and 2026.1.0. As a workaround, ensure moderators are trusted or enable the \"require_change_email_confirmation\" setting.","aliases":["BIT-discourse-2025-69289","GHSA-p39j-x54c-rwqq"],"modified":"2026-08-12T03:51:16.634133280Z","published":"2026-01-28T19:33:58.921Z","database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"extracted_events":[{"fixed":"3.5.4"}],"source":"AFFECTED_FIELD"}],"cna_assigner":"GitHub_M","cwe_ids":["CWE-863"],"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/69xxx/CVE-2025-69289.json"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/69xxx/CVE-2025-69289.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/discourse/discourse/security/advisories/GHSA-p39j-x54c-rwqq"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-69289"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/discourse/discourse","events":[{"introduced":"75d61b40ee928a4620b16f5438ca886678fab00d"},{"fixed":"f31b18139a7aadbc4a5f7e8e565a6f4376010c3a"},{"introduced":"3e7317b3344cca6c6510a32cc4c5c0f540132ad9"},{"last_affected":"322d3c0ac6a8f133b3f82875e9dbbe310f638c1b"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"2025.11.0"},{"fixed":"2025.11.2"},{"introduced":"2025.12.0"},{"last_affected":"2025.12.0"},{"introduced":"2026.1.0"},{"last_affected":"2026.1.0"}],"source":["CPE_RANGE","CPE_STRING"],"cpe":["cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:*:*:*:*:stable:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2025.12.0:*:*:*:stable:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:discourse:discourse:2026.1.0:*:*:*:stable:*:*:*"]}}],"versions":["2025.12.0","2026.1.0","v2025.11.1","v2026.1.0-latest","v2025.11.0","v2025.12.0-latest"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-69289.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V4","score":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N"}]}