# CVE-2026-105678: Ghost: Editors Could Promote Staff Users to Their Own Role

- Also known as: GHSA-4PVX-FWJJ-8GPC, BIT-GHOST-2026-104412, BIT-GHOST-2026-105678
- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.64.0
- Published: 2026-10-05 · Updated: 2026-10-07

## Affected

- TryGhost Ghost: from 0.5.0, fixed in 6.64.0
- ghost (Bitnami): from 0.5.0, fixed in 6.64.0
- ghost (npm): from 0.5.0, fixed in 6.64.0

## Description

Ghost is a Node.js content management system. From 0.5.0 until 6.64.0, staff users with the Editor or Super Editor role were able to assign their own role to Author and Contributor users, despite not having permission to assign that role. This issue is fixed in version 6.64.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on TryGhost Ghost, ghost, upgrade to a fixed version (6.64.0) per the references below.
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## Related

- [CVE-2026-104412](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-104412.md)
- Browse: [npm packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/npm.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-4pvx-fwjj-8gpc
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/30764
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/99c5642b9bb481df4811a004a6f19d6143ed9aaf
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.64.0

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