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CVE-2023-22488
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-01-12T20:15:09.347 · Last modified 2026-06-17T05:35:34.203

Summary

Flarum is a forum software for building communities. Using the notifications feature, one can read restricted/private content and bypass access checks that would be in place for such content. The notification-sending component does not check that the subject of the notification can be seen by the receiver, and proceeds to send notifications through their different channels. The alerts do not leak data despite this as they are listed based on a visibility check, however, emails are still sent out. This means that, for extensions which restrict access to posts, any actor can bypass the restriction by subscribing to the discussion if the Subscriptions extension is enabled. The attack allows the leaking of some posts in the forum database, including posts awaiting approval, posts in tags the u

Affected products

flarum — flarum

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References

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