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BIT-ghost-2026-70596 — Ghost: Cross-Site Scripting in Feature Image Captions

2026-10-17T07:52:55.077912+00:00

Affected: Bitnami: ghost

Ghost is a Node.js content management system. From 4.9.0 until 6.54.1, an input validation issue allowed any staff user to create a post with content in feature_image_caption that could be used to hijack another staff user's Ghost Admin session, resulting in privilege escalation. This issue is fixed in 6.54.1.

EUVD-2026-348707

2026-10-17T07:52:55.077974+00:00

EUVD-2026-348707

fkie_cve-2026-70596

2026-10-17T07:52:55.077990+00:00

GHSA-pr22-p9rp-2cqv — Ghost: Cross-Site Scripting in Feature Image Captions

2026-10-17T07:52:55.078015+00:00

Affected: npm: ghost

### Impact

An input validation issue allowed any staff user to create a post with content that could be used to hijack another staff user's Ghost Admin session resulting in privilege escalation.

### Vulnerable versions

This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v4.9.0 up to v6.54.0.

### Patches

v6.54.1 contains a fix for this issue.

### How to update

For self-hosters using Docker, find [Docker's official Ghost image here](https://hub.docker.com/_/ghost). Updating a Docker-based Ghost instance [is documented here](https://docs.ghost.org/install/docker#updating-ghost).

If your Ghost is a Ghost-CLI install see our documentation on [updating it to the latest version here](https://docs.ghost.org/update).

### References

Ghost thanks Versa for disclosing this vulnerability responsibly.

### For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email Ghost at [security@ghost.org](mailto:security@ghost.org).