CVE-2024-23724

critical

Description

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."

References

https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/blog/

https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/19646

https://github.com/RhinoSecurityLabs/CVEs/tree/master/CVE-2024-23724

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-02-11

Updated: 2024-09-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical