THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2024-23724
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2024-23724

Ghost vulnerability

CVSS
9.0
EPSS
3.5%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
Ghost through 5.76.0 allows stored XSS, and resultant privilege escalation in which a contributor can take over any account, via an SVG profile picture that contains JavaScript code to interact with the API on localhost TCP port 3001. NOTE: The discoverer reports that "The vendor does not view this as a valid vector."
Affected vendor
Ghost
Affected product
Ghost
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Published
2024-02-11

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2024-23724

  • Confirm whether Ghost Ghost is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2024-23724.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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