Ghost vulnerability

What happened

Ghost 5.42.2 before 6.58.0 contains an information disclosure vulnerability in the Admin API bulk post and page edit and delete endpoints, which accept filters on restricted fields such as authors.password, because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-70590. Staff-level attackers can infer other staff users' password hashes from which filters match and perform offline password-guessing attacks against them.

Affected versions

Ghost: 5.42.2 through before 6.58.0 (semver) Fixed: See vendor advisory.

Why it matters

Review the vendor advisory and exposure of the affected product to determine operational impact.

Detection & mitigation

• Apply vendor-provided updates or mitigations.
• Review affected product exposure and access logs.