CVE-2026-53943

Ghost: Cache-poisoning XSS in Ghost frontend via x-ghost-preview header

State
Published
Severity
9.6 Critical
Published
Jun 24, 2026
Updated
Jun 24, 2026
Reserved
Jun 11, 2026

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Description

Ghost is a Node.js content management system. From until 6.37.0, when Ghost is behind a shared caching layer that results in cached content being shared between different visitors, an unauthenticated user could send an x-ghost-preview header that altered the rendered frontend response. In affected cache configurations, that response could be stored and served to subsequent visitors requesting the same page, allowing cache poisoning of request-specific preview output. When running Ghost's frontend and admin panel on the same domain this could be used to take over staff user accounts. When running these on different domains staff accounts have no exposure. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.37.0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.6 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-524 Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information

Affected Products

ProductVersions
GhostTryGhost
  • >= 4.0.0, < 6.37.0Affected

References

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