CVE-2022-47196: An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4. Default installations of Ghost allow…

PriorityP429medium5.4CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRLUIRSCCLILAN

EPSS

0.68%

47.8th percentile

An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4. Default installations of Ghost allow non-administrator users to inject arbitrary Javascript in posts, which allow privilege escalation to administrator via XSS. To trigger this vulnerability, an attacker can send an HTTP request to inject Javascript in a post to trick an administrator into visiting the post.A stored XSS vulnerability exists in the `codeinjection_head` for a post.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
ghost	ghost	—	—
ghost_foundation	ghost	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.4MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvdv3.09.0CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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