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TI-2026-34785 Aliases CVE-2026-47197

Quest Bot: Discord moderation role hierarchy bypass in ban, kick, mute, unmute, warn, and nickname commands

Priority HIGH 65CWE-862Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
Present
Impact type
Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · High · Low
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.

Summary

Quest Bot is an opensource Discord Bot. Prior to version 1.1.6, a moderator with the relevant Discord permission bit can use the bot to moderate users above them in the Discord role hierarchy, as long as the bot itself outranks the target. This bypasses Discord’s normal role hierarchy protections and lets lower-ranked moderators ban, kick, timeout, untimeout, warn, or rename higher-ranked users. This issue has been patched in version 1.1.6.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00289 21st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed questbot (duck-organization): 1.1.6

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
duck-organizationquestbotbefore 1.1.61.1.6Patch availableCNA
  • questbot Vendorduck-organization Affected before 1.1.6 Fixed in 1.1.6 Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA questbot (duck-organization) Fixed in 1.1.6

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-47197

References

Other 2

  • TI-2026-34763 Duck Site: Untrusted pull request code can trigger privileged production deployment CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.5
  • TI-2026-34761 Quest Bot: Untrusted pull request code can be built and deployed by privileged `workflow_run` deployment. CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.5
  • TI-2026-34777 Quest Bot: AutoMod removal can delete rules from another guild by global rule ID CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.3
  • TI-2026-34760 Quest Bot: Reminder messages allow stored mass mentions through `@everyone` and `@here` CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2026-34784 Quest Bot: Empty automod rule causes every guild message to be deleted CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.4
  • TI-2026-34758 Quest Bot: Manage Server users can configure AutoRole to grant Administrator to controlled joining accounts CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.5
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