CVE-2024-23725 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Ghost before 5.76.0 allows XSS via a post excerpt in excerpt.js. An XSS payload can be rendered in post summaries.

Published: 2024-01-21

Score: 6.1 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ghost:ghost:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Github GHSA	GHSA-fh38-9fgr-454w	Cross-site Scripting in Ghost

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00114.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/17190
https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v5.76.0

History

Fri, 30 May 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Ghost Ghost

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-01-21T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-30T14:24:10.278Z

Reserved: 2024-01-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-23725

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T23:13:07.429Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-21T04:15:19.177

Modified: 2025-05-30T15:15:37.033

Link: CVE-2024-23725

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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