CVE-2026-59817
Description
Ghost is a Node.js content management system. From 6.27.0 before 6.44.0, Ghost's public donation checkout flow allowed an unauthenticated attacker to control donation checkout metadata and obtain full paid gift memberships for a minimal payment without exposing customer or member data or stealing money from a site or its members. This issue is fixed in version 6.44.0.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/cab716cd015ac04b7ee50c7a405478d97bc7b1e0
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/ee7b991b466a7849c70f9d1caed8e491ee4113c6
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/28351
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/28352
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-xm43-3m56-w3wf
CWEs
CWE-472 CWE-639
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.