Medium
Ghost 0.5.0 before 6.64.0 Privilege Escalation via Staff Role Assignment
Ghost 0.5.0 before 6.64.0 does not correctly restrict staff role assignment, allowing users with the Editor or Super Editor role to assign their own role to other staff despite lacking permission to do so. An authenticated Editor or Super Editor can promote Author and Contributor users to Editor or Super Editor.
Announced Source revision 1
Original source ↗CVE-2026-104412
Primary source · Revision 1
Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.
Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-104412
Ghost
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "TryGhost",
"product": "Ghost",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "0.5.0",
"lessThan": "6.64.0",
"versionType": "semver"
},
{
"status": "unaffected",
"version": "6.64.0",
"versionType": "semver"
}
],
"packageURL": "pkg:npm/ghost",
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-104412
Source reference:
/cveMetadata/cveId
Publisher severity
medium
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #8988 · Revision 1
- Added to Heist Feed
- Publisher date