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CVE-2025-2056

Published: Mar 14, 2025

Modified: Apr 8, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.5

HIGH

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.

VendorProductVersions

johndarrel

WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall

affected
0 - <= 5.4.01

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-23

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

References

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