Vulnerabilities / CVE-2026-53943

critical

CVE-2026-53943

Ghost: Cache-poisoning XSS in Ghost frontend via x-ghost-preview header

Published Modified CWE 524
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

GHSA9.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Bitnami9.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by GHSA, Bitnami.

Description

Ghost is a Node.js content management system. From until 6.37.0, when Ghost is behind a shared caching layer that results in cached content being shared between different visitors, an unauthenticated user could send an x-ghost-preview header that altered the rendered frontend response. In affected cache configurations, that response could be stored and served to subsequent visitors requesting the same page, allowing cache poisoning of request-specific preview output. When running Ghost's frontend and admin panel on the same domain this could be used to take over staff user accounts. When running these on different domains staff accounts have no exposure. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.37.0.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
bitnami::Bitnami Vulnerability Databaseghost6.37.0
npm::GitHub Security Advisory npmghost6.37.0

References

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