GHSA-x3mg-q38v-m562
Ghost: Authorization Issue Allowed Author Role to Delete any Post
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
Staff with the Author role could delete posts and pages that they did not author.
### Vulnerable versions
This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v5.81.0 up to v6.60.0.
### Patches
v6.60.0 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 Ethan Wilkins of Armadin, [Mihir Shishulkar](https://hackerone.com/mihir1011), [Jan Kahmen](https://github.com/kah-ja) of [TuringPoint](https://www.turingpoint.de), and [Hao Long](https://github.com/imlonghao) 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-x3mg-q38v-m562
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105680
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/30283
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/cf2f718a67faa342c27989b701554ddd63862165
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.60.0