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Ghost has Staff 2FA bypass

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jan 8, 2026 in TryGhost/Ghost • Updated Jan 8, 2026

Package

npm ghost (npm)

Affected versions

>= 6.0.0, <= 6.10.3
>= 5.105.0, <= 5.130.5

Patched versions

6.11.0
5.130.6

Description

Impact

A vulnerability in Ghost's 2FA mechanism allows staff users to skip email 2FA.

Vulnerable versions

This vulnerability is present in Ghost v5.105.0 to v5.130.5 to and Ghost v6.0.0 to v6.10.3.

Patches

v5.130.6 and v6.11.0 contain a fix for this issue.

References

Ghost thanks Sho Odagiri of GMO Cybersecurity by Ierae, Inc. for discovering and disclosing this vulnerability responsibly.

For more information

If there are any questions or comments about this advisory, email Ghost at [email protected].

References

@kevinansfield kevinansfield published to TryGhost/Ghost Jan 8, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 8, 2026
Reviewed Jan 8, 2026
Last updated Jan 8, 2026

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

Weaknesses

Improper Authentication

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2026-22594

GHSA ID

GHSA-5fp7-g646-ccf4

Source code

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