GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-chgm-3698-jm42 Ghost: Member existence leak via magic link sign-in response
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-53947
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- ghost
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-204
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-04
Affected packages
• npm ghost: >= 5.18.0, < 6.21.2 → fixed in 6.21.2
Description
Impact
A discrepancy in responses from the members signin endpoints made it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to determine whether a given email address belongs to a registered member of a Ghost site.
Vulnerable versions
This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v5.18.0 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 Ghost at [email protected].
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-53947 Ghost is a Node.js content management system. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-204 Observable Response Discrepancy weakness
References
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-chgm-3698-jm42 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53947 advisory
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/26752 web
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/fb2bb634653d99de68fc42d415721d755284fe30 web
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost package
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.21.1 web