CVE-2026-11870: Unknown Wp Ghost Hide My Wp Ghost

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) WordPress plugin before 7.0.05 does not verify that client IP information comes from a trusted proxy before trusting attacker-controllable HTTP headers, allowing unauthenticated attackers to spoof their IP address to bypass the WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) WordPress plugin before 7.0.05's own brute-force protection and to downgrade its firewall by matching a hardcoded whitelisted IP range.

Affected products

• Unknown Wp Ghost Hide My Wp Ghost: before 7.0.05 (fixed in 7.0.05)

Published 2026-07-30. Last modified 2026-07-30.