GHSA-m382-6jw4-fmp6
Ghost: Path Traversal via Locale Setting
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
A vulnerability in how Ghost loads theme translation files allowed an authenticated Administrator to read JSON files outside of the active theme's directory, potentially exposing server configuration secrets.
### Vulnerable versions
This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v1.20.0 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 Miguel Segovia Gil of KPMG and [Nguyễn Quốc Đồng](https://github.com/DONG2209) 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-m382-6jw4-fmp6
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105676
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/30635
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/30635
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/d2f498694be549074dd5817fd0e8a1371b65df02
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.64.0