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Vulnerability in WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall — CVE-2026-89051

HighSeverity
CVSS 7.2
0.2%Estimated exploit probability
EPSS
100,000+ sitesInstalls
7.0.13Fixed in

What to do now

Update WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall to 7.0.13 or later.

Affected versions

  • Everything up to and including 7.0.12

Affected: WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall (plugin, hide-my-wp)

Check: The plugin on wordpress.org / Our record for WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall

What the vulnerability is

The WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'replaceHeadersAndTags' function in versions up to, and including, 7.0.12 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user clicks on the injected link.

This description is reproduced verbatim from the public vulnerability record.

Sources

Part of this record comes from Wordfence Intelligence. Original: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/94724ff1-d3a7-4d9d-9423-a0e795360c95
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