Hide My WP Ghost – Security & Firewall <= 5.3.02 - Unauthenticated Login Page Disclosure

5.3
Protection Mechanism Failure
CVE CVE-2024-13794
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published February 11, 2025
Last Updated February 27, 2025
Researcher Nicholas Mun (NRockhouse)

Description

The WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Login Page Dislcosure in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.02. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting the /wp-register.php path. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to discover the hidden login page location.

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Vulnerability Details for WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug hide-my-wp (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 5.4.01, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 5.3.02
Patched Version
  • 5.4.01

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