CVE•Published 2026-02-20•Modified 2026-05-26•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-26980Ghost · Ghost
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.4
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
EPSS percentile
97
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 3% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
Ghost is a Node.js content management system. Versions 3.24.0 through 6.19.0 allow unauthenticated attackers to perform arbitrary reads from the database. This issue has been fixed in version 6.19.1.
Timeline
Published 2026-02-20
Modified 2026-05-26
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2026-26980Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product
product:"Ghost Ghost"All exposed Ghost Ghost instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Ghost"HTTP body or banner mentions "Ghost" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-26980Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-26980Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-26980Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-26980GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-26980" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (8)
CVE-2026-269808 repos
nomi-sec/PoC-in-GitHubunknown
📡 PoC auto collect from GitHub. ⚠️ Be careful Malware.
DarkFunct/TK-CVE-RepoPython
TK-CVE-Repo
patrickmgarrity/Anthropic-Credited-CVEsunknown
Tracking Vulnerabilities That Appear to be Credited to the Anthropic Research Team
dinosn/ghost-cve-2026-26980Python
CVE-2026-26980 — Ghost CMS Content API SQL Injection Lab (unauthenticated blind SQLi via slug filter ordering)
gagaltotal/CVE-2026-26980-Ghost-CMS-ApiGo
CVE-2026-26980 - Ghost CMS Content API SQL Injection
vognik/CVE-2026-26980Python
💣 Exploit for CVE-2026-26980 — 👻 Ghost CMS Unauthenticated SQLi via Content API
EQSTLab/CVE-2026-26980Python
Ghost Content API SQL Injection
n0bitaemon/CVE-2026-26980-PoCPython
Ghost CMS Content API Blind SQL Injection