GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-944x-pm95-3jpr Ghost: File Upload Content-Type Spoofing
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-53948
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- ghost
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-434
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-04
Affected packages
• npm ghost: >= 6.19.4, < 6.21.1 → fixed in 6.21.1
Description
Impact
Insufficient validation of the client-supplied `Content-Type` on Ghost's Admin API file upload endpoint allowed uploaded files to be served from the site with an attacker-chosen content type on S3/GCS storage backends. On installations that serve uploaded files from the same origin as the site, this could have been used to facilitate stored cross-site scripting against site visitors or staff.
Vulnerable versions
This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v6.19.4 up to v6.21.0.
Patches
v6.21.1 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.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at [email protected].
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-53948 Ghost is a Node.js content management system. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type weakness
References
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-944x-pm95-3jpr web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53948 advisory
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/26751 web
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/d659e752d6636144d75b9aa94062cdbc88a16b21 web
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost package
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.21.1 web