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CVE-2023-32235

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-32235 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability affecting Ghost CMS versions prior to 5.42.1, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files within the active theme's folder. With a CVSS score of 7.5 and an EPSS score indicating high exploitability, this flaw presents a significant risk for data exposure. While not listed on the KEV catalog, public exploit code is available via ExploitDB and Nuclei templates, suggesting a high likelihood of exploitation. Despite the availability of exploits, there is currently no widespread community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.42.1CPE 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
39.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
Nuclei: CVE-2023-32235 · May 8, 2023
ExploitDB: EDB-52408 · Aug 11, 2025
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3908 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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: 5.42.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-wf7x-fh6w-34r6high

Path Traversal in Ghost

May 5, 2023

References

github.com / TryGhost/Ghost/commit/378dd913aa8d0fd0da29b0ffced8884579598b0f
Patch
github.com / TryGhost/Ghost/compare/v5.42.0...v5.42.1
Release Notes