Vulnerability GHSA-hqq2-xqr2-fmx2

Medium Risk
MEDIUM RISK
CVSS Score: 6.8
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 : Stored XSS via SVG Files in Content Imports
4.0.0 - 6.65.0
4.0.0 - 6.65.0

Summary

Ghost : Stored XSS via SVG Files in Content Imports

Details

Impact

SVG images included in content imports were stored without sanitization. An attacker who convinced an Administrator to import a crafted file could host scripts on the site's domain, possibly resulting in compromise of staff users' admin sessions.

Vulnerable versions

This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v4.0.0 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 Zhixi "Jace" Sun, independent security researcher, 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