CVE-2022-47196CWE-453

An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4

Critical · published January 19, 2023

CVSS v3.0
9.0
EPSS
1%
Percentile
51.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
9.0 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00682 · 51.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-453 · Insecure Default Variable Initialization
Published
2023-01-19T17:02Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 JAN 17:02Z
    An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4
    cvelistv5