WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall <= 7.0.06 - Two-Factor Authentication Bypass

4.3
Improper Authentication
CVE CVE-2026-59546
CVSS 4.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published July 23, 2026
Last Updated July 29, 2026
Researcher Ananda Dhakal

Description

The WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Two-Factor Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 7.0.06. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to bypass 2FA.

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Vulnerability Details for Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug hide-my-wp (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 7.0.07, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 7.0.06
Patched Version
  • 7.0.07

Recent vulnerabilities in Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall <= 7.0.09 - Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery CVE-2026-81806 7.2 Ananda Dhakal September 7, 2026
2 WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall < 7.0.05 - IP Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass CVE-2026-11870 5.3 Yaswanth Reddy Sunkara August 4, 2026
3 Hide My WP Ghost < 7.0.00 - Unauthenticated Open Redirect CVE-2026-39484 4.7 Or Benit March 18, 2026
4 Hide My WP Ghost <= 5.4.01 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion CVE-2025-26909 9.8 Dimas Maulana March 19, 2025
5 WP Ghost <= 5.4.01 - Unauthenticated Limited File Read CVE-2025-2056 7.5 mikemyers March 13, 2025
6 Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall <= 5.3.02 - Unauthenticated Login Page Disclosure CVE-2024-13794 5.3 Nicholas Mun (NRockhouse) February 11, 2025
7 Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall <= 5.3.01 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via URL CVE-2024-10825 6.1 Peter Thaleikis November 14, 2024
8 Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall <= 5.2.01 - Login Page Disclosure CVE-2024-6420 5.3 Juan Pablo Gomez Postigo July 2, 2024
9 Hide My WP Ghost <= 5.0.25 - CAPTCHA Bypass in brute_math_authenticate CVE-2023-34001 5.3 konagash August 22, 2023
10 Hide My WP Ghost – Security Plugin <= 5.0.18 - IP Address Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass CVE-2022-4537 6.5 rezaduty May 8, 2023

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