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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-53949 BIT-ghost-2026-53949EUVD-2026-39020GHSA-jx35-x7fj-vgpr

Ghost Content API filter bypass reveals private fields

Published Jun 24, 2026 · Updated Jun 24, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Ghost is a Node.js content management system. From 5.46.1 until 6.21.2, the validation applied to filters on the public API endpoints could be partially bypassed, making it possible to reveal private fields via a brute force attack. If SQLite was used as the database password hashes were fully accessible. If MySQL was used as the database the password hashes' case (uppercase / lowercase) would have been lost, which would likely have rendered a further brute force attack on the discovered hashes fruitless. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.21.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
TryGhost Ghost >= 5.46.1, < 6.21.2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm ghost >= 5.46.1, < 6.21.2 6.21.2 GHSA-jx35-x7fj-vgpr

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