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Bug bounty reports15,219

Publicly disclosed HackerOne reports, with the platform's own outcome and severity.

Program:Discourse
Status:Valid
Clear
Severity
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Year
Bounty paid11
Access stated
Access needed
  • No account0
  • A user account0
  • A privileged role0
  • Admin0
  • Physical or local access0
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Disclosed bug bounty reports
ReportStatusWeaknessSeverityDisclosedBountyVotes
Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability in Drafts Creation Endpoint#3400140ValidDenial of ServiceHigh2026-06-30$1,02498
Account takeover at https://try.discourse.org due to no CSRF protection in connecting Yahoo account#423022ValidCross-Site Request Forgery–2018-12-06–89
Application Level DoS - Large Markdown Payload in Reply Section Leading to Resource Exhaustion#3058919ValidDenial of ServiceHigh2025-10-18–84
Any user with invite capabilities can take-over any account on Discourse#242765ValidNo weakness recorded–2017-11-06$1,02475
CSRF-tokens on pages without no-cache headers, resulting in ATO when using CloudFlare proxy (Web Cache Deception)#260697ValidCross-Site Request Forgery–2018-08-08–58
Arbitrary Local-File Read from Admin - Restore From Backup due to Symlinks#213558ValidInformation Disclosure–2017-05-13$51252
Web Cache Deception Attack (XSS)#394016ValidCross-site Scripting–2018-11-18$25651
Admin Command Injection via username in user_archive ExportCsvFile#214022ValidCommand and Code Injection–2017-05-13$51245
SSRF in upload IMG through URL#228377ValidInformation Disclosure–2017-06-18$6432
Hidden/restricted tags can be mutated through synonym ID paths without per-tag authorization#3689633ValidInsecure Direct Object ReferenceMedium2026-08-26–31
DOM Based XSS in Discourse Search#191890ValidCross-site Scripting–2017-01-10–29
Stored XSS in "post last edited" option#333507ValidCross-site Scripting–2018-07-09$25619
Gaining access to private topics using quoting feature#312647ValidAccess Control–2018-03-17$25619
Any authenticated user can download full list of users, including email#228399ValidInformation Disclosure–2017-06-17$25619
XSS in topics because of bandcamp preview engine vulnerability#197443ValidCross-site Scripting–2017-01-20–15
XSS vulnerability on Audio and Video parsers#192223ValidCross-site Scripting–2017-01-10$25615
XSS Vulnerability on Image link parser#191909ValidCross-site Scripting–2017-01-10$25615
Stored XSS in posts because of absence of oembed variables values escaping#197914ValidCross-site Scripting–2017-01-20–13
Stored XSS in topics because of whitelisted_generic engine vulnerability#197902ValidCross-site Scripting–2017-01-20–13
Users can bookmark other user's messages#192611ValidAccess Control–2017-01-10–7
Arbitrary `/tmp` read in discourse via `convert_heif!` decoder-confusion (regression of 4bf3bf6786)#3738834ValidInformation DisclosureMedium2026-10-26–4

Status and severity are HackerOne's. “Access stated” is what the title says; “Access needed” and techniques come from CyberSIXT's analysis of the public report (549 analysed so far), which can be wrong. Data as of 2026-11-14.

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