CVE-2024-23724: Ghost

Critical severity, CVSS 9.0. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Ghost Ghost: up to and including 5.76.0

Published 2024-02-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.