Users who have rights to edit a node, can set the visibility on comments for that node. This should be restricted to those who have the administer comments permission.
Part of security patch SA-CORE-2016-004
This vulnerability affects the following application versions:
- Drupal 8.0.0
- Drupal 8.0.1
- Drupal 8.0.2
- Drupal 8.0.3
- Drupal 8.0.4
- Drupal 8.0.5
- Drupal 8.0.6
- Drupal 8.1.0
- Drupal 8.1.1
- Drupal 8.1.2
- Drupal 8.1.3
- Drupal 8.1.4
- Drupal 8.1.5
- Drupal 8.1.6
- Drupal 8.1.7
- Drupal 8.1.8
- Drupal 8.1.9