CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-47196

5.4 MEDIUM Published 2023-01-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-01-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.0 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-1188, CWE-453, CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• ghost ghost 5.9.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (3)

  • CWE-1188 Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default weakness
  • CWE-453 Insecure Default Variable Initialization weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References