GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-8575-cr6v-7jh4 Ghost: Stored XSS via SVG Uploads Bypassing Sanitization
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-105649
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- ghost
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-434, CWE-79
- Reviewed
- 2026-10-07
Affected packages
• npm ghost: >= 4.22.0, < 6.65.0 → fixed in 6.65.0
Description
Impact
SVG media thumbnails, and SVG images uploaded with a non-SVG file extension, were stored without sanitization. This allowed any staff user, including Contributors, to host scripts on the site's domain, possibly resulting in compromise of other staff users' admin sessions.
Vulnerable versions
This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v4.22.0 up to v6.64.0.
Patches
v6.65.0 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 Ibrahim AlJaafreh of Cystack Red Team, Anand Prajapati, 白墨, and Nhat Anh Vu for disclosing this vulnerability responsibly.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at [email protected].
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-105649 Ghost is a Node.js content management system. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-8575-cr6v-7jh4 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105649 advisory
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/30919 web
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/80686226d23df56749f6b7ebb484850a8eba8072 web
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost package
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.65.0 web