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

CVE-2026-11870

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

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Unknown / WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost)	affected 0 before 7.0.05

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d3bf6487-88a9-4fc7-87b6-5e739519aa64/

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.