Vulnerability GHSA-9m4w-fmjw-fvjq

Medium Risk
MEDIUM RISK
CVSS Score: 4.9
Score Range: 4.0–6.9
Medium severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 4.0–6.9). Important issues that meaningfully reduce security confidence.
7 hours ago
October 07, 2026 at 08:43 PM UTC
Ghost: Regular Expression Denial of Service in External Media Inliner
5.37.0 - 6.65.0
5.37.0 - 6.65.0

Summary

Ghost: Regular Expression Denial of Service in External Media Inliner

Details

Impact

A crafted request to the external media inliner could cause excessive CPU usage, making the Ghost server unresponsive. Exploiting this requires Administrator access.

Vulnerable versions

This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v5.37.0 up to v6.65.0.

Patches

v6.67.0 contains a fix for this issue.

How to update

For self-hosters using Docker, find Docker's official Ghost image here. Updating a Docker-based Ghost instance is documented here.

If your Ghost is a Ghost-CLI install see our documentation on updating it to the latest version here.

References

Ghost thanks ka3n1x for disclosing this vulnerability responsibly.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at [email protected].

Impacted packages

Timeline

Published
7 hours ago
October 07, 2026 at 08:43 PM UTC
Fixed (6.67.0)
Unknown
Unknown
Last Modified
7 hours ago
October 07, 2026 at 09:00 PM UTC