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CVE-2026-11870mediumCWE-290

Hide My WP Ghost < 7.0.05 - IP Address Spoofing via Trusted Proxy Headers Leading to Protection Mechanism Bypass

33Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendcvss 5.4epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 91% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
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