FKIE_CVE-2025-2056

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-03-14 05:15 - Updated: 2025-06-20 18:13
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-my-wp/tags/5.4.02/models/Files.php#L336Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f43db496-80ea-442c-9417-7aa03ec95f02?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wpplugins hide_my_wp_ghost *
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