GHSA-fwh9-qg68-vxp4
Ghost: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Content Import
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
A crafted content import file could cause excessive CPU usage, making the Ghost server unresponsive. Exploiting this requires Administrator access.
### Vulnerable versions
This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v4.0.0 up to v6.65.0.
### Patches
v6.67.0 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 [ka3n1x](https://github.com/ka3n1x) 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-fwh9-qg68-vxp4
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105646
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/31058
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/88ae6d6d56f8a239cb38a8c89de02f034f50e2ce
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.66.0