{"id":"CVE-2022-47194","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-47194","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:05:37.458Z","title":"An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4.","description":"An insecure default vulnerability exists in the Post Creation functionality of Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.9.4. Default installations of Ghost allow non-administrator users to inject arbitrary Javascript in posts, which allow privilege escalation to administrator via XSS. To trigger this vulnerability, an attacker can send an HTTP request to inject Javascript in a post to trick an administrator into visiting the post.A stored XSS vulnerability exists in the `twitter` field for a user.","published":"2023-01-19T18:15:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:13:15.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"talos-cna@cisco.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-453","CWE-79","CWE-1188"],"affected":["ghost/ghost"],"epss":{"score":0.00823,"percentile":0.57079,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.82%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1686","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"talos-cna@cisco.com"},{"url":"https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1686","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1686","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-47194","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}