GHSA-99vc-xw8j-phjm

Ghost has possible Cross-site Scripting issue

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2024-23724

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	ghost	<= 5.76.0	no fix listed
npm	ghost	<= 5.76.0	no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Ghost through 5.76.0 allows stored XSS, and resultant privilege escalation in which a contributor can take over any account, via an SVG profile picture that contains JavaScript code to interact with the API on localhost TCP port 3001. NOTE: The discoverer reports that "The vendor does not view this as a valid vector."

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23724 advisory
https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/19646 web
https://github.com/RhinoSecurityLabs/CVEs/tree/master/CVE-2024-23724 web
https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost package
https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/blog web