CVE-2026-26980Ghost has a SQL Injection in its Content API
- 9.4CriticalCVSS base score
- 71.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Ghost is a Node.js content management system. Versions 3.24.0 through 6.19.0 allow unauthenticated attackers to perform arbitrary reads from the database. This issue has been fixed in version 6.19.1.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits2
Nuclei templates1 template
- Ghost CMS Content API - SQL Injection (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2026/CVE-2026-26980.yamlSeverity critical
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Ghost CMS 6.19.0 - SQLi (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 52555webapps, multiplepublished 7 May 2026Not verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Published
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 71.1% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.4.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
References4
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-w52v-v783-gw97 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/30868d632b2252b638bc8a4c8ebf73964592ed91 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.19.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://blog.xlab.qianxin.com/ghost-cms-page-poisoning-cve-2026-26980/ (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-8400 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-w52v-v783-gw97 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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