WP Ghost <= 5.4.01 - Unauthenticated Limited File Read

Relative Path Traversal
CVE CVE-2025-2056
CVSS High (7.5)
Publicly Published March 13, 2025
Last Updated March 14, 2025
Researcher mikemyers
Description

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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug hide-my-wp (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.4.01
Patched Version
  • 5.4.02
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