CVE-2025-2056 (GCVE-0-2025-2056)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-14 04:22 – Updated: 2025-03-14 13:45
VLAI?
Title
WP Ghost <= 5.4.01 - Unauthenticated Limited File Read
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-23 - Relative Path Traversal
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
johndarrel WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall Affected: * , ≤ 5.4.01 (semver)
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Credits
Michael Mazzolini
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