Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input Affecting ghost package, versions >=5.46.1 <6.21.2
Threat Intelligence
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- published8 Jul 2026
- disclosed24 Jun 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 24 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-53949 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade ghost to version 6.21.2 or higher.
Overview
ghost is a publishing platform
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input in the validation of filters on public API endpoints. An attacker can access private fields by sending specially crafted filter requests.
Note: This is only exploitable if the application is configured to use SQLite as the database, which allows full access to password hashes.