Vulnerability · Published Jul 30, 2026 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2026-11870Hide My WP Ghost < 7.0.05 - IP Address Spoofing via Trusted Proxy Headers Leading to Protection Mechanism Bypass

Medium 5.4

In plain English

A medium-severity authentication bypass by spoofing in WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) from Unknown. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 18% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.4Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 82.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost)	0 – before 7.0.05

Weakness: CWE-290 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d3bf6487-88a9-4fc7-87b6-5e739519aa64/ exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description