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CVE-2026-22594: Ghost has Staff 2FA bypass

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Plan (action score 40/100)

A ready-made attack module is public (Metasploit); exploiting it takes no special expertise.
Because a ready-made attack tool exists, priority is at least “Plan”.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.3% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 70.7% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: ghost (npm) 5.130.6, 6.11.0.

Add it to your regular patch cycle. Upgrade to ghost (npm) 5.130.6, 6.11.0 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Ghost is a Node.js content management system. In versions 5.105.0 through 5.130.5 and 6.0.0 through 6.10.3, a vulnerability in Ghost's 2FA mechanism allows staff users to skip email 2FA. This issue has been patched in versions 5.130.6 and 6.11.0.

HighCVSS 8.1 · v3.1—Weaponized Fix available

Auth bypass

GHSA-5fp7-g646-ccf4

Published: Jan 9, 2026
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 1.3% · 70th percentile
CWE: CWE-287

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Action score

Plan

Add it to your regular patch cycle.

CVSS: 32 / 40 · 8.1 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 1.3%
Ready-made attack tool: 8 / 40 · floor: at least 40

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · GitHub_M: 8.1; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
ghost	ghost	cpe:2.3:a:ghost:ghost

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

ghost ghost5.105.0 and later · before 5.130.6
ghost ghost6.0.0 and later · before 6.11.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

TryGhost Ghost
- >= 6.0.0, < 6.11.0, >= 5.105.0, < 5.130.6affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
npm	ghost	from 5.105.0 · before 5.130.6	5.130.6
npm	ghost	from 6.0.0 · before 6.11.0	6.11.0

Same product

ghost: all records

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47Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2024-43409Aug 20, 2024 · Ghost's improper authentication allows access to member information and actions
26Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2025-9862Sep 17, 2025 · Ghost 6.0.6 - SSRF via oEmbed Bookmark
24Monitor
Later →CVE-2026-22595Jan 9, 2026 · Ghost has Staff Token permission bypass
32Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
npm:ghost	5.130.6	Package registry (OSV)
npm:ghost	6.11.0	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

Weaponized

A ready exploit tool or active in-the-wild use is known for this vulnerability. This should be your top priority.

Evidence

Metasploit module ×1

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Public exploit evidence
Source	Kind	Date
Metasploit module	exploit/multi/http/ghostcms_auth_rce_cve_2026_29053Ghost CMS Remote Code Executionexploit	2026-03-02

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

PublishedJan 9, 2026
MetasploitMar 2, 2026+51 d
TodayNov 3, 2026+297 d

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

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Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

CVE-2026-225960 days apartGhost has SQL Injection in Members Activity Feed
28Monitor
CVE-2025-9862114 days apartGhost 6.0.6 - SSRF via oEmbed Bookmark
24Monitor
CVE-2026-225970 days apartGhost has SSRF via External Media Inliner
20Monitor

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: none

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-287 · Improper Authentication

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

nvd-secondary

Root cause

Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-287 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
2

3// Route added later skips the middleware
4app.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);

Fixed

1const admin = express.Router();
2admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
3

4admin.post("/config", updateConfig);
5app.use("/admin", admin);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC

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References

github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/b59f707f670e6f175b669977724ccf16c718430b

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