CVE-2025-2056

HIGH

Wpplugins Hide MY WP Ghost < 5.4.02 - Path Traversal

Title source: rule

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 (2)

[Patch] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-my-wp/tags/5.4.02/models/Files.php#L336

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f43db496-80ea-442c-9417-7aa03ec95f02?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0129

EPSS Percentile 79.4%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-23

Status published

Affected Products (1)

wpplugins/hide_my_wp_ghost < 5.4.02

Timeline

Published Mar 14, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026