Code Injection in ghost (CVE-2026-105642)
Summary
Code injection in ghost (CVE-2026-105642). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.67.0 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Impact
An image processing library bundled with Ghost contained a vulnerability in its SVG handling. Any staff user, including Contributors, could create a bookmark card for an attacker-controlled website, resulting in arbitrary commands being run on the Ghost server.
Vulnerable versions
This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v6.56.0 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. Updating a Docker-based Ghost instance is documented here.
If your Ghost is a Ghost-CLI install see our documentation on updating it to the latest version here.
References
We thank Rafael B. for disclosing this vulnerability responsibly.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at security@ghost.org.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-105642 has been found in ghost.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. CVSS score: 8.8/10.
What to do: upgrade ghost to 6.67.0 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "ghost CVE-2026-105642" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-105642 (ghost) — CWE-94 / CVSS v3 8.8
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated
Patched: 6.67.0 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Arbitrary code execution (CWE-94) exists in ghost.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of ghost.
Severity: High (CVSS 8.8/10). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to 6.67.0.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'ghost' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'ghost' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
ghostを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade ghost to 6.67.0ステージング環境で 6.67.0 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- web github.com
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web github.com