CVE-2026-70590: Ghost: Blind Password Hash Disclosure in Ghost Admin API
Any staff-level user was able to leak the hashed passwords of other staff users. An offline password-guessing attack against the hashes could lead to account takeover if successful, but Device Verification should have prevented an attacker from logging in with a recovered password. Depending on the database used, leaked hashes may not have had the correct casing for all characters, increasing the difficulty of a password-guessing attack.
References
- github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/63c31fad7e473caa62d8fbb4651a04a2a62b5d00
- github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/29628
- github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.54.1
- github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-jm22-3w23-5q7w
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-jm22-3w23-5q7w
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-70590
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