A broken access control vulnerability in Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.x allows authenticated Author-role users to delete posts owned by other users. The post model permissible() cascade is missing the branch that handles the combined isAuthor and isDestroy condition, causing the authorization check to fall through and permit the deletion. An attacker with an Author account can delete any post on the platform.
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| https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost |
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Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:30:00 +0000
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| Description | A broken access control vulnerability in Ghost Foundation Ghost 5.x allows authenticated Author-role users to delete posts owned by other users. The post model permissible() cascade is missing the branch that handles the combined isAuthor and isDestroy condition, causing the authorization check to fall through and permit the deletion. An attacker with an Author account can delete any post on the platform. | |
| Title | Ghost Foundation Ghost - Broken Access Control | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-284 | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: TuranSec
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-11T12:15:13.662Z
Reserved: 2026-08-10T10:33:03.257Z
Link: CVE-2026-72596
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