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CVE-2026-11870: Hide My WP Ghost < 7.0.05 - IP Address Spoofing via Trusted Proxy Headers Leading to Protection Mechanism Bypass
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-07-30 · updated 2026-07-30
- Weakness: CWE-290
Description
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
- WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost): before 7.0.05 — fixed in 7.0.05
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) 7.0.05. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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