CVE-2025-2056

HIGH

WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) - Security & Firewall <= 5.4.01 - Unauthenticated Path Traversal via showFile Function

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0053
EPSS Percentile 40.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-23
Status published
Products (2)
johndarrel/WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall < 5.4.01
wpplugins/hide_my_wp_ghost < 5.4.02
Published Mar 14, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026