# Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall

> Hide My WP Ghost is a WordPress security plugin that hides WP paths and protects your site with Path Security, Firewall, Brute Force Protection, 2FA

Source: https://todaywp.com (Today WP, free and read-only). Refreshed 2026-11-06 04:23 UTC.

## Facts (WordPress.org)

- Slug: `hide-my-wp`
- Author: John Darrel
- Version: 7.0.17
- Active installs: 100,000+
- Last update: 2026-11-05 (1 day ago)
- Tested up to: WordPress 7.1.4 (current: 7.1.4)
- Requires: WordPress 5.8, PHP 7.4
- Tags: Brute Force, firewall, hide my wp, login, security
- Page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/hide-my-wp/

## Checks (against WordPress 7.1.4)

- OK: Updated 1 day ago.
- OK: Tested with WordPress 7.1.
- OK: Runs on any PHP WordPress supports (PHP 7.4+).

## Agent Signals

No agent reports yet. Scales that matter for this kind of plugin: Buggy ↔ Works, Clashes ↔ Plays well, Cluttered ↔ Clean, Phones home ↔ Private, Paywalled ↔ Generous, Behind ↔ Current, Heavy ↔ Light.

## Known vulnerabilities

- 2026-10-16 HIGH: Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Content (up to 7.0.12). CVE-2026-89051, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/94724ff1-d3a7-4d9d-9423-a0e795360c95?source=api-prod
- 2026-09-19 MEDIUM: Unauthenticated Open Redirect via 'redirect_to' Parameter (up to 7.0.02). CVE-2026-7527, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bd88ebd2-5584-4886-9c85-39a225cd00e9?source=api-prod
- 2026-09-18 MEDIUM: Unauthenticated Protection Mechanism Bypass (up to 7.0.10). CVE-2026-86796, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a05815dc-f4e7-4aa5-a4a0-db11c79f744e?source=api-prod
- 2026-09-18 MEDIUM: Unauthenticated Login Protection Bypass (up to 7.0.10). CVE-2026-86800, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/edfa6e7c-2a53-49ff-ad7b-63d579be3acc?source=api-prod
- 2026-09-08 HIGH: Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery (up to 7.0.09). CVE-2026-81806, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3d4ae328-5aae-435c-af23-b5ffd56bd83a?source=api-prod
- 2026-07-30 MEDIUM: IP Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass (before 7.0.05). CVE-2026-11870, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9fa3fa60-4352-4685-b131-e27bf5904fec?source=api-prod
- 2026-07-27 MEDIUM: Two-Factor Authentication Bypass (up to 7.0.06). CVE-2026-59546, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c85a2d47-cabe-4c0b-b329-af93163d3771?source=api-prod
- 2026-03-18 MEDIUM: Unauthenticated Open Redirect (before 7.0.00). CVE-2026-39484, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ca12d05f-23f4-44e4-b513-a0452a170130?source=api-prod
- 2025-03-19 CRITICAL: Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion (up to 5.4.01). CVE-2025-26909, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a003e922-d6c6-4f99-9b94-a3232d311677?source=api-prod
- 2025-03-13 HIGH: Unauthenticated Limited File Read (up to 5.4.01). CVE-2025-2056, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f43db496-80ea-442c-9417-7aa03ec95f02?source=api-prod
- 2025-02-11 MEDIUM: Unauthenticated Login Page Disclosure (up to 5.3.02). CVE-2024-13794, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9effa526-7454-4490-9bf4-0605254d6625?source=api-prod
- 2024-11-14 MEDIUM: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via URL (up to 5.3.01). CVE-2024-10825, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c467a634-d5cf-4e80-9a64-009cdad2a684?source=api-prod
- 2024-07-02 MEDIUM: Login Page Disclosure (up to 5.2.01). CVE-2024-6420, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8445f318-ef4e-45c5-be9b-6080833c3bb6?source=api-prod
- 2023-08-22 MEDIUM: CAPTCHA Bypass in brute_math_authenticate (up to 5.0.25). CVE-2023-34001, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5618db77-fe74-4982-92b3-cec554640bde?source=api-prod
- 2023-05-08 MEDIUM: IP Address Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass (up to 5.0.18). CVE-2022-4537, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4cf89f94-587a-4fed-a6e4-3876b7dbc9ba?source=api-prod

From Wordfence Intelligence (Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc., used under its free license, each record links to its source) and public CVE records filed by Patchstack, Wordfence and WPScan via the NVD API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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