CVE-2025-2056: Wpplugins Hide My Wp Ghost

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Wpplugins Hide My Wp Ghost: before 5.4.02 (fixed in 5.4.02)

Published 2025-03-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.