Ghost: Authorization Issue Allowed Author Role to Delete any Post

Impact

Staff with the Author role could delete posts and pages that they did not author.

Vulnerable versions

This vulnerability is present in Ghost from v5.81.0 up to v6.60.0.

Patches

v6.60.0 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.

References

Ghost thanks Ethan Wilkins of Armadin, Mihir Shishulkar, Jan Kahmen of TuringPoint, and Hao Long for disclosing this vulnerability responsibly.

For more information

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