WP Ghost <= 5.4.01 — Unauthenticated Limited File Read
CVE-2025-2056Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤5.4.01Update to 5.4.02 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High7.5
- CVSS
- 7.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall hide-my-wp
- Affected≤ 5.4.01
- Patched in5.4.02
Update to 5.4.02 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 5.4.01. Version 5.4.02 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 5.4.02, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Michael Mazzolini.
The WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.01 via the showFile function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read the contents of specific file types on the server, which can contain sensitive information.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium4.7 | Unauthenticated Open Redirect via 'redirect_to' Parameter ≤7.0.02Update to 7.0.03 | CVE-2026-7527 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Protection Mechanism Bypass ≤7.0.10Update to 7.0.11 | CVE-2026-86796 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Login Protection Bypass ≤7.0.10Update to 7.0.11 | CVE-2026-86800 | |
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery ≤7.0.09Update to 7.0.10 | CVE-2026-81806 |
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content
≤7.0.12Update to 7.0.13
- Medium4.7Unauthenticated Open Redirect via 'redirect_to' Parameter
≤7.0.02Update to 7.0.03
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Protection Mechanism Bypass
≤7.0.10Update to 7.0.11
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Login Protection Bypass
≤7.0.10Update to 7.0.11
- High7.2Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery
≤7.0.09Update to 7.0.10
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.5
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.