tryghost/ghost · Security
Ghost: Member existence leak via magic link sign-in response
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-chgm-3698-jm42
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-53947
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Description
Impact
A discrepancy in responses from the members signin endpoints made it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to determine whether a given email address belongs to a registered member of a Ghost site.
Vulnerable versions
This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v5.18.0 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 Ghost at [email protected].
CWEs
- CWE-204 · Observable Response Discrepancy
References
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-chgm-3698-jm42 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53947 ↗
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/26752 ↗
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/fb2bb634653d99de68fc42d415721d755284fe30 ↗
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.21.1 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-chgm-3698-jm42 ↗