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CVE-2022-47196

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-01-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-453

Description

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 products

• TryGhost Ghost: 5.9.4

References

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1686
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1686
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1686

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