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WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) <= 7.0.02 — Unauthenticated Open Redirect via 'redirect_to' Parameter

CVE-2026-7527Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤7.0.02Update to 7.0.03 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium4.7
CVSS
4.7
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-601 Open Redirect
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.4% chance in 30 days34th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall hide-my-wp

  1. Affected≤ 7.0.02
  2. Patched in7.0.03

Update to 7.0.03 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 7.0.02. Version 7.0.03 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

  1. Update to version 7.0.03, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. 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 s00me00ne.

The WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Open Redirect in all versions up to, and including, 7.0.02. This is due to the plugin not properly validating user input. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to redirect users to potentially malicious sites if they can successfully trick them into clicking on a specially crafted link. Exploitation requires tricking a logged-in user into clicking a crafted logout URL; the victim is fully logged out via wp_logout() before the malicious redirect is issued, making the logout irreversible as part of the attack chain.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.7

  2. 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.
EPSS
Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST.org.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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