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Advisories for ghost

CVE-2016-10983 MEDIUM

The ghost plugin before 0.5.6 for WordPress has no access control for wp-admin/tools.php?ghostexport=true downloads of exported data.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
nvd@nist.gov 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N 2.8 3.6

CVSS 2.0

Severity: MEDIUM

Problem Type: CWE-287,

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2020-24736

Buffer Overflow vulnerability found in SQLite3 v.3.27.1 and before allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted script.

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost sqlite3 3.27.1
CVE-2020-8134 MEDIUM

Server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Ghost CMS < 3.10.0 allows an attacker to scan local or external network or otherwise interact with internal systems.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
nvd@nist.gov 8.1 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N 2.8 5.2

CVSS 2.0

Severity: MEDIUM

Problem Type: CWE-918,CWE-918,

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2021-29484 MEDIUM

Ghost is a Node.js CMS. An unused endpoint added during the development of 4.0.0 has left sites vulnerable to untrusted users gaining access to Ghost Admin. Attackers can gain access by getting logged in users to click a link containing malicious code. Users do not need to enter credentials and may not know they've visited a malicious site. Ghost(Pro) has already been patched. We can find no evidence that the issue was exploited on Ghost(Pro) prior to the patch being added. Self-hosters are impacted if running Ghost a version between 4.0.0 and 4.3.2. Immediate action should be taken to secure your site. The issue has been fixed in 4.3.3, all 4.x sites should upgrade as soon as possible. As the endpoint is unused, the patch simply removes it. As a workaround blocking access to /ghost/preview can also mitigate the issue.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
nvd@nist.gov 6.1 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N 2.8 2.7
security-advisories@github.com 6.8 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N 1.6 5.2

CVSS 2.0

Severity: MEDIUM

Problem Type: CWE-79,CWE-79,

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2021-39192 MEDIUM

Ghost is a Node.js content management system. An error in the implementation of the limits service between versions 4.0.0 and 4.9.4 allows all authenticated users (including contributors) to view admin-level API keys via the integrations API endpoint, leading to a privilege escalation vulnerability. This issue is patched in Ghost version 4.10.0. As a workaround, disable all non-Administrator accounts to prevent API access. It is highly recommended to regenerate all API keys after patching or applying the workaround.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security-advisories@github.com 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N 1.2 5.2
nvd@nist.gov 7.2 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 1.2 5.9

CVSS 2.0

Severity: MEDIUM

Problem Type: CWE-200,CWE-269,

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2022-21227 MEDIUM

The package sqlite3 before 5.0.3 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) which will invoke the toString function of the passed parameter. If passed an invalid Function object it will throw and crash the V8 engine.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
nvd@nist.gov 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 3.9 3.6
report@snyk.io 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 3.9 3.6

CVSS 2.0

Severity: MEDIUM

Problem Type: NVD-CWE-noinfo,

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost sqlite3 *
CVE-2022-27139 HIGH

An arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the file upload module of Ghost v4.39.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted SVG file. NOTE: Vendor states that as outlined in Ghost's security documentation, upload of SVGs is only possible by trusted authenticated users. The uploading of SVG files to Ghost does not represent a remote code execution vulnerability. SVGs are not executable on the server, and may only execute javascript in a client's browser - this is expected and intentional functionality

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
nvd@nist.gov 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 3.9 5.9

CVSS 2.0

Severity: HIGH

Problem Type: CWE-434,

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost 4.39.0
CVE-2022-28397 HIGH

An arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the file upload module of Ghost CMS v4.42.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file. NOTE: Vendor states as detailed in Ghost's security documentation, files can only be uploaded and published by trusted users, this is intentional

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
nvd@nist.gov 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 3.9 5.9

CVSS 2.0

Severity: HIGH

Problem Type: CWE-434,

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost 4.42.0
CVE-2022-41654

An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the newsletter subscription functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4. A specially-crafted HTTP request can lead to increased privileges. An attacker can send an HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2022-41697

A user enumeration vulnerability exists in the login functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4. A specially-crafted HTTP request can lead to a disclosure of sensitive information. An attacker can send a series of HTTP requests to trigger this vulnerability.

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost 5.9.4
CVE-2022-43441

A code execution vulnerability exists in the Statement Bindings functionality of Ghost Foundation node-sqlite3 5.1.1. A specially-crafted Javascript file can lead to arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide malicious input to trigger this vulnerability.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
talos-cna@cisco.com 8.1 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 2.2 5.9
nvd@nist.gov 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 3.9 5.9

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost sqlite3 *
CVE-2022-47194

An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4. Default installations of Ghost allow non-administrator users to inject arbitrary Javascript in posts, which allow privilege escalation to administrator via XSS. To trigger this vulnerability, an attacker can send an HTTP request to inject Javascript in a post to trick an administrator into visiting the post.A stored XSS vulnerability exists in the `twitter` field for a user.

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost 5.9.4
CVE-2022-47195

An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4. Default installations of Ghost allow non-administrator users to inject arbitrary Javascript in posts, which allow privilege escalation to administrator via XSS. To trigger this vulnerability, an attacker can send an HTTP request to inject Javascript in a post to trick an administrator into visiting the post.A stored XSS vulnerability exists in the `facebook` field for a user.

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost 5.9.4
CVE-2022-47196

An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4. Default installations of Ghost allow non-administrator users to inject arbitrary Javascript in posts, which allow privilege escalation to administrator via XSS. To trigger this vulnerability, an attacker can send an HTTP request to inject Javascript in a post to trick an administrator into visiting the post.A stored XSS vulnerability exists in the `codeinjection_head` for a post.

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost 5.9.4
CVE-2022-47197

An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4. Default installations of Ghost allow non-administrator users to inject arbitrary Javascript in posts, which allow privilege escalation to administrator via XSS. To trigger this vulnerability, an attacker can send an HTTP request to inject Javascript in a post to trick an administrator into visiting the post.A stored XSS vulnerability exists in the `codeinjection_foot` for a post.

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost 5.9.4
CVE-2023-26510

Ghost 5.35.0 allows authorization bypass: contributors can view draft posts of other users, which is arguably inconsistent with a security policy in which a contributor's draft can only be read by editors until published by an editor. NOTE: the vendor's position is that this behavior has no security impact.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
nvd@nist.gov 5.7 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N 2.1 3.6

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost 5.35.0
CVE-2023-31133

Ghost is an app for new-media creators with tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters, and offer paid subscriptions to members. Prior to version 5.46.1, due to a lack of validation when filtering on the public API endpoints, it is possible to reveal private fields via a brute force attack. Ghost(Pro) has already been patched. Maintainers can find no evidence that the issue was exploited on Ghost(Pro) prior to the patch being added. Self-hosters are impacted if running Ghost a version below v5.46.1. v5.46.1 contains a fix for this issue. As a workaround, add a block for requests to `/ghost/api/content/*` where the `filter` query parameter contains `password` or `email`.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security-advisories@github.com 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N 3.9 3.6

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2023-32235

Ghost before 5.42.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files within the active theme's folder via /assets/built%2F..%2F..%2F/ directory traversal. This occurs in frontend/web/middleware/static-theme.js.

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2023-40028

Ghost is an open source content management system. Versions prior to 5.59.1 are subject to a vulnerability which allows authenticated users to upload files that are symlinks. This can be exploited to perform an arbitrary file read of any file on the host operating system. Site administrators can check for exploitation of this issue by looking for unknown symlinks within Ghost's `content/` folder. Version 5.59.1 contains a fix for this issue. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
nvd@nist.gov 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N 2.8 3.6
security-advisories@github.com 4.9 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N 1.2 3.6

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2024-23724

Ghost through 5.76.0 allows stored XSS, and resultant privilege escalation in which a contributor can take over any account, via an SVG profile picture that contains JavaScript code to interact with the API on localhost TCP port 3001. NOTE: The discoverer reports that "The vendor does not view this as a valid vector."

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2024-23725

Ghost before 5.76.0 allows XSS via a post excerpt in excerpt.js. An XSS payload can be rendered in post summaries.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
nvd@nist.gov 6.1 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N 2.8 2.7

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2024-34451

Ghost through 5.85.1 allows remote attackers to bypass an authentication rate-limit protection mechanism by using many X-Forwarded-For headers with different values. NOTE: the vendor's position is that Ghost should be installed with a reverse proxy that allows only trusted X-Forwarded-For headers.

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2025-9862

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Ghost allows an attacker to access internal resources.This issue affects Ghost: from 6.0.0 through 6.0.8, from 5.99.0 through 5.130.3.

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2026-22594

Ghost is a Node.js content management system. In versions 5.105.0 through 5.130.5 and 6.0.0 through 6.10.3, a vulnerability in Ghost's 2FA mechanism allows staff users to skip email 2FA. This issue has been patched in versions 5.130.6 and 6.11.0.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security-advisories@github.com 8.1 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N 2.8 5.2

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2026-22595

Ghost is a Node.js content management system. In versions 5.121.0 through 5.130.5 and 6.0.0 through 6.10.3, a vulnerability in Ghost's handling of Staff Token authentication allowed certain endpoints to be accessed that were only intended to be accessible via Staff Session authentication. External systems that have been authenticated via Staff Tokens for Admin/Owner-role users would have had access to these endpoints. This issue has been patched in versions 5.130.6 and 6.11.0.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security-advisories@github.com 8.1 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H 2.8 5.2

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2026-22596

Ghost is a Node.js content management system. In versions 5.90.0 through 5.130.5 and 6.0.0 through 6.10.3, a vulnerability in Ghost's /ghost/api/admin/members/events endpoint allows users with authentication credentials for the Admin API to execute arbitrary SQL. This issue has been patched in versions 5.130.6 and 6.11.0.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security-advisories@github.com 6.7 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L 1.2 5.5

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2026-22597

Ghost is a Node.js content management system. In versions 5.38.0 through 5.130.5 and 6.0.0 through 6.10.3, a vulnerability in Ghost’s media inliner mechanism allows staff users in possession of a valid authentication token for the Ghost Admin API to exfiltrate data from internal systems via SSRF. This issue has been patched in versions 5.130.6 and 6.11.0.

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2026-24778

Ghost is an open source content management system. In Ghost versions 5.43.0 through 5.12.04 and 6.0.0 through 6.14.0, an attacker was able to craft a malicious link that, when accessed by an authenticated staff user or member, would execute JavaScript with the victim's permissions, potentially leading to account takeover. Ghost Portal versions 2.29.1 through 2.51.4 and 2.52.0 through 2.57.0 were vulnerable to this issue. Ghost automatically loads the latest patch of the members Portal component via CDN. For Ghost 5.x users, upgrading to v5.121.0 or later fixes the vulnerability. v5.121.0 loads Portal v2.51.5, which contains the patch. For Ghost 6.x users, upgrading to v6.15.0 or later fixes the vulnerability. v6.15.0 loads Portal v2.57.1, which contains the patch. For Ghost installations using a customized or self-hosted version of Portal, it will be necessary to manually rebuild from or update to the latest patch version.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security-advisories@github.com 8.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 2.8 5.9

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
ghost portal *
CVE-2026-26980

Ghost is a Node.js content management system. Versions 3.24.0 through 6.19.0 allow unauthenticated attackers to perform arbitrary reads from the database. This issue has been fixed in version 6.19.1.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security-advisories@github.com 9.4 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L 3.9 5.5

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2026-29053

Ghost is a Node.js content management system. From version 0.7.2 to 6.19.0, specifically crafted malicious themes can execute arbitrary code on the server running Ghost. This issue has been patched in version 6.19.1.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security-advisories@github.com 7.6 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H 1.0 6.0

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *
CVE-2026-29784

Ghost is a Node.js content management system. From version 5.101.6 to 6.19.2, incomplete CSRF protections around /session/verify made it possible to use OTCs in login sessions different from the requesting session. In some scenarios this might have made it easier for phishers to take over a Ghost site. This issue has been patched in version 6.19.3.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
security-advisories@github.com 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 1.6 5.9

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
ghost ghost *