Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessRegister or log in as site member
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ExploitRequest gated post listings/excerpts
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ExecutionMissing authz check returns restricted excerpts
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ImpactRead previews of inaccessible paid content
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated Ghost site-member account (any registered member, including free tier) on a site at version 5.3.0 up to but not including 6.62.0 that publishes gated/premium (paywalled) content. The attacker must be a logged-in member but one WITHOUT access rights to the targeted gated posts. Exploitation is limited to reading post excerpts (preview snippets) only - not full gated article bodies - so impact is bounded to partial content disclosure; sites with no gated/members-only content are unaffected. |
| Impact | This is a low-to-moderate real-world risk despite the input's 6.9 CVSS 4.0 score. The vendor 4.0 vector (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L...) rates confidentiality impact as Low and all other impacts None, which correctly caps severity - but the vector's PR:N (unauthenticated) directly CONTRADICTS the description, which explicitly states 'an authenticated site member' performs the attack. This is a meaningful discrepancy: exploitation requires a valid Ghost member account, so real privilege is PR:L, not PR:N - verify with vendor. There is no EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public exploit code identified at time of analysis, so this is not confirmed actively exploited. The actual leaked data is merely post excerpts (partial previews) of gated/paywalled content - not full articles, credentials, or member PII - so the practical impact is bounded to information disclosure of teaser text. This is a genuine but minor authorization-boundary bug, not a priority emergency; it rates well below high-CVSS flaws with real exploitation signals. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker registers or already holds a free (non-paying) Ghost site membership, then queries the content/members API or browses post listings and receives the excerpt fields of premium gated posts they have not paid for or been granted access to. No public exploit code exists; the attack is simple API enumeration requiring only a logged-in member session, yielding teaser text of otherwise-restricted content. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 01, 2026
Authenticated Ghost site members on versions 5.3.0 through 6.61.x can retrieve the post excerpts (preview snippets) of gated, members-only or premium posts they are not entitled to read, because the excerpts endpoint fails to enforce the same access checks applied to full post content. The exposure is limited to excerpt text rather than complete article bodies, so the practical impact is partial content disclosure, and sites that publish no gated or paywalled content are unaffected. Any registered member account - including a free-tier member with no subscription - is sufficient to trigger the issue; no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and no confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV) has been reported.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade Ghost to 6.62.0 or later, as documented in GHSA-rv92-9vfp-2826 (https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-rv92-9vfp-2826); patches are available from the vendor, and upgrades within the 6.x line are the lowest-friction path since the fix only touches excerpt authorization. If an immediate upgrade is not possible, compensating controls are limited: temporarily unpublishing or converting gated posts to public/members-agnostic content removes the exposure but forfeits paywall revenue; disabling public member registration (Settings → Membership → access settings) and revoking or downgrading existing untrusted member accounts reduces the attacker pool but does not close the flaw for already-registered members, and blocking the members/content API excerpt route at the reverse proxy for non-subscriber sessions can work but risks breaking legitimate teaser previews and member-facing UI. Because exploitation requires a valid member session, tighten monitoring of member API requests for excerpt retrieval across posts the requester cannot access, and rotate/suspend suspicious member accounts; no public exploit code has been identified, so these are precautionary rather than incident-driven measures.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Ghost is an open-source Node.js publishing platform whose Members feature implements subscriptions, tiers and gated content: full post bodies for paywalled articles are withheld from members who lack the required tier. The underlying weakness is classified as CWE-862, Missing Authorization, in the code path that serves post excerpts used for teaser/preview rendering - the excerpt is returned without confirming that the requesting member holds access rights to the parent gated post. The affected component is tracked by CPE cpe:2.3:a:tryghost:ghost:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* across the 5.3.0 to <6.62.0 range. Note a scoring discrepancy across sources: the supplied CVSS 4.0 vector (6.9) uses PR:N, whereas the independent assessment for this advisory uses CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N (base 4.3) because a valid authenticated member session is required; the vector should be read as requiring a low-privileged member account rather than being unauthenticated. Confidentiality impact is confined to excerpts (C:L) with no integrity or availability effect.
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Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description states an authenticated member performs the read, so PR:L (not PR:N); only partial excerpt disclosure yields C:L with no integrity or availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (VulnCheck).
CVSS VectorVendor: VulnCheck
Lifecycle Timeline
1DescriptionCVE.org
Ghost versions 5.3.0 before 6.62.0 contain a missing authorization vulnerability that allows an authenticated site member to read the excerpts of posts they do not have access to (gated content).
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EUVD-2026-90663
GHSA-cg23-423q-wg36
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