TryGhost up to 6.55.x Notifications System privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in TryGhost Ghost up to 6.55.x. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Notifications System. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-103286. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in TryGhost Ghost up to 6.55.x and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Notifications System. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Ghost versions from 2.21.0 before 6.56.0 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability in the notifications system that allows low-privilege staff users to escalate to higher-privilege staff roles. Attackers with low-privilege staff access can exploit the notifications system to gain elevated privileges without proper authorization checks.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-103286 since 09/30/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

Upgrading to version 6.56.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• TryGhost

Name

• Ghost

Version

• 6.0
• 6.1
• 6.2
• 6.3
• 6.4
• 6.5
• 6.6
• 6.7
• 6.8
• 6.9
• 6.10
• 6.11
• 6.12
• 6.13
• 6.14
• 6.15
• 6.16
• 6.17
• 6.18
• 6.19
• 6.20
• 6.21
• 6.22
• 6.23
• 6.24
• 6.25
• 6.26
• 6.27
• 6.28
• 6.29
• 6.30
• 6.31
• 6.32
• 6.33
• 6.34
• 6.35
• 6.36
• 6.37
• 6.38
• 6.39
• 6.40
• 6.41
• 6.42
• 6.43
• 6.44
• 6.45
• 6.46
• 6.47
• 6.48
• 6.49
• 6.50
• 6.51
• 6.52
• 6.53
• 6.54
• 6.55

Website

• Product: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/

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