Hide My WP Ghost Plugin up to 7.0.10 on WordPress protection mechanism

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Hide My WP Ghost Plugin up to 7.0.10. This affects an unknown function. This manipulation causes protection mechanism. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-86796. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Hide My WP Ghost Plugin up to 7.0.10 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a protection mechanism vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-693. The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

The Hide My WP Ghost WordPress plugin before 7.0.11 does not verify that a request is a genuine WooCommerce request before disabling its firewall, threat-detection and login/URL-hiding protections, treating the mere presence of an attacker-suppliable request parameter as sufficient, which allows unauthenticated attackers to disable those protections and re-expose the concealed login and admin URLs on any request.

It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-86796 since 09/08/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 7.0.11 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-82685). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.2

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
VulDB Vector: 🔒
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CNA Base Score: 5.3
CNA Vector (WPScan): 🔒

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Protection mechanism
CWE: CWE-693
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ATT&CK: 🔒

Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔒

Upgrade: Hide My WP Ghost Plugin 7.0.11

Timelineinfo

09/08/2026 CVE reserved
09/18/2026 +10 days Advisory disclosed
09/18/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
09/18/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wpscan.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-86796 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-86796
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-407371
EUVD: 🔒

Entryinfo

Created: 09/18/2026 08:45
Updated: 09/18/2026 09:32
Changes: 09/18/2026 08:45 (63), 09/18/2026 09:32 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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