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."
CVE-2024-23724
This critical-severity CVE scores 9.0 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 3.5%, top 12% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory enrichment pending alignment with NVD CVSS.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 9.0
- EG Score
- 9.0(medium)
- EG Risk
- 42(Track)EG Risk 42/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity90% × 45%Exploitation3% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 3%
- EPSS %ILE
- 88%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
February 11, 2024
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
Advisory Details (3)
Auto-updated Jul 26, 2026🐛 Fix XSS Vulnerability in SVG Upload Handling
Upstream fix in progress (PR #19646 · TryGhost/Ghost, state=closed)
https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/19646CVEs/CVE-2024-23724 at master · RhinoSecurityLabs/CVEs · GitHub
https://github.com/RhinoSecurityLabs/CVEs/tree/master/CVE-2024-23724Patch Availability(1)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | ghost | — | ghsa |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
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npm(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| ghost | — | — | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
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