CVE-2026-89051Hide My WP Ghost <= 7.0.12 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content
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EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.19%, higher than 8% of scored CVEs.
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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.
- CVSS
- 7.2 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- 0.19% (percentile 8)
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Oct 16, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 16, 2026
Affected products
johndarrel Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall johndarrel:hide_my_wp_ghost_security_and_firewall (from the name) | through 7.0.12 | CNA record |
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/94724ff1-d3a7-4d9d-9423-a0e795360c95?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3745418%40hide-my-wp%2Ftags%2F7.0.13&old=3726247%40hide-my-wp%2Ftags%2F7.0.12
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