Vulnerability GHSA-pr22-p9rp-2cqv

Impact

An input validation issue allowed any staff user to create a post with content that could be used to hijack another staff user's Ghost Admin session resulting in privilege escalation.

Vulnerable versions

This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v4.9.0 up to v6.54.0.

Patches

v6.54.1 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 Versa for disclosing this vulnerability responsibly.

For more information

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