GHSA-4pvx-fwjj-8gpc
Ghost: Editors Could Promote Staff Users to Their Own Role
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
Staff users with the Editor or Super Editor role were able to assign their own role to Author and Contributor users, despite not having permission to assign that role.
### Vulnerable versions
This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v0.5.0 up to v6.64.0.
### Patches
v6.64.0 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 [SecBuddyF](https://github.com/SecBuddyF) of [Tencent KeenLab](https://github.com/KeenSecurityLab), [Santosh Kumar Puppala](https://github.com/Santoshkumarpuppala), Pedro Pinho, and [Nhat Anh Vu](https://github.com/nhattanhh) for disclosing this vulnerability responsibly.
### For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-4pvx-fwjj-8gpc
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105678
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/30764
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/30764
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/99c5642b9bb481df4811a004a6f19d6143ed9aaf
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.64.0