tryghost/ghost · Security

Ghost: File Upload Content-Type Spoofing

GHSA ID
GHSA-944x-pm95-3jpr
CVE ID
CVE-2026-53948
Severity
medium
Published
Updated
CVSS
5.4 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v3
5.4 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

Impact

Insufficient validation of the client-supplied Content-Type on Ghost's Admin API file upload endpoint allowed uploaded files to be served from the site with an attacker-chosen content type on S3/GCS storage backends. On installations that serve uploaded files from the same origin as the site, this could have been used to facilitate stored cross-site scripting against site visitors or staff.

Vulnerable versions

This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v6.19.4 up to v6.21.0.

Patches

v6.21.1 contains a fix for this issue.

How to update

For self-hosters using Docker, find Docker's official Ghost image here. Updating a Docker-based Ghost instance is documented here.

If your Ghost is a Ghost-CLI install see our documentation on updating it to the latest version here.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at [email protected].

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