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CVE-2023-31133

47
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-31133 is a high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) affecting Ghost versions prior to 5.46.1. It allows an unauthenticated attacker to brute-force public API endpoints to reveal private user fields, such as email addresses or passwords, due to insufficient input validation. While Ghost(Pro) has been patched with no evidence of prior exploitation, self-hosted instances remain vulnerable. There is currently no public exploit code available, and the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.46.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ghost:ghost:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
45.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.4571 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ghostFixed in: 5.46.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-r97q-ghch-82j9high

Ghost vulnerable to information disclosure of private API fields

May 3, 2023

References

github.com / TryGhost/Ghost/commit/b3caf16005289cc9909488391b4a26f3f4a66a90
Patch
github.com / TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v5.46.1
Release Notes
github.com / TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-r97q-ghch-82j9
Vendor Advisory