GHSA-qrh6-cwg3-343x
Ghost: Authorization Bypass in Comment Like Feature
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
An input validation issue allowed members to delete comment likes / dislikes that they were not authorized to delete.
### Vulnerable versions
This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v5.9.0 up to v6.44.1.
### Patches
v6.44.1 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 [Adel Assakaf](https://github.com/assakafpix) and [Arthur Gurunlian](https://github.com/Buggs777) as well as Geoffrey Diederichs of [Escape](https://escape.tech/) 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-qrh6-cwg3-343x
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-103288
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/28297
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/405c2623ff9060295d4a87d3a0eb4ef766c8d2d3
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.44.1
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ghost-5.9.0-before-6.44.1-authorization-bypass-via-comment-like