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Vishnu Narayanan 1b487f49d8 fix: reject cross-account author on help center articles (#15191)
## Description

The help center article endpoints permit `author_id` and render the
author through the agent serializer (`_agent.json.jbuilder`), which
exposes `email` plus name, role, and availability. `author_id` was never
scoped to the current account, so a forged or stale author disclosed the
profile of a user in another account. This is the article path of the
same serializer disclosure class as the conversation participants fix.

The fix has two parts:

- **Serializer guard (the disclosure fix).** The article partials now
render the author only when they are a member of the current account
(`article.author&.account`). This closes the leak on every read and for
every row, including articles that already carry a forged or stale
out-of-account author, and mirrors how the conversation assignee is
already handled.
- **Create-only validation.** `author_id` is checked against the
account's users on create, so a new article cannot be forged with an
out-of-account author. Update needs no guard: a non-member author is
simply never rendered, so editing an article whose author has left the
account continues to work.

Fixes https://linear.app/chatwoot/issue/CW-7665

Related: https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/pull/15180
(https://linear.app/chatwoot/issue/CW-7746).
2026-07-28 18:37:07 +05:30
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