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Medium · 6.5 Public exploit CVE-2024-23724 BIT-ghost-2024-23724EUVD-2024-0591GHSA-99vc-xw8j-phjm

Ghost has possible Cross-site Scripting issue

Published Feb 11, 2024 · Updated Nov 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Package: ghost Ecosystem: npm

Description

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."

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

GitHub 2 repositories

  • gl1tch0x1/Ghost-CMS-Exploit ★ 0 · Feb 23, 2025

    Ghost-CMS Exploit is python script. This script first performs brute-force authentication attempts using the provided wordlists. If valid credentials are found, it proceeds to check for CVE-2024-2372…

  • Youssefdds/CVE-2024-23724 ★ 0 · Jan 19, 2025

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm ghost <= 5.76.0 — GHSA-99vc-xw8j-phjm

References