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CVE-2024-23724

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-02-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Ghost through 5.76.0 allows stored XSS, and resultant privilege escalation in which a contributor can take over any account, via an SVG profile picture that contains JavaScript code to interact with the API on localhost TCP port 3001. NOTE: The discoverer reports that "The vendor does not view this as a valid vector."

Affected products

• TryGhost Ghost: through 5.76.0

References

• https://github.com/RhinoSecurityLabs/CVEs/tree/master/CVE-2024-23724
• https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/19646
• https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/blog/
• https://github.com/RhinoSecurityLabs/CVEs/tree/master/CVE-2024-23724
• https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/19646
• https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/blog/

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