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Medium 5.3Published Aug 17, 2026

CVE-2026-53960Discourse: Hidden first-post excerpt is emitted in Q&A schema JSON-LD

Updated under an hour ago ()

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It affects discourse. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.1.6, 2026.5.2, 2026.6.1, and 2026.7.0, hidden or otherwise unviewable first-post content was leaked as an excerpt in the publicly-served Q&A (QAPage) JSON-LD structured data, exposing it to any unauthenticated visitor and to search-engine crawlers. This issue is fixed in versions 2026.1.6, 2026.5.2, 2026.6.1, and 2026.7.0.

CVSS
5.3 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-862
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
GitHub_M
NVD analysis
Deferred
Record last updated
Aug 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
discourse discourse
discourse:discourse (from the name)
before 2026.1.6; from 2026.5.0-latest, < 2026.5.2; from 2026.6.0-latest, < 2026.6.1
CNA record

References

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