WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall < 7.0.05 — IP Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass
CVE-2026-11870Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <7.0.05Update to 7.0.05 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/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:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- 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< 7.0.05
- Patched in7.0.05
Update to 7.0.05 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 7.0.05. Version 7.0.05 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 7.0.05, 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 Yaswanth Reddy Sunkara.
The WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Spoofing in all versions up to 7.0.05 (exclusive). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass IP based protections.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall
All 15| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content ≤7.0.12Update to 7.0.13 | CVE-2026-89051 | |
| 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 medium, CVSS 5.3
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.