CVE-2026-89051

high

The WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'replaceHeadersAndTags' functio…

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

7.2 (CVSS v3.1)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (security@wordfence.com)

Timeline (UTC)

Published: 2026-10-16 06:17

Modified: 2026-10-16 15:17

NVD status: Deferred

Last synced 2 days ago

Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 07:03 UTC

Exploitation

Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)

Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3745418%40hide-my-wp%2Ftags%2F7... security@wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/94724ff1-d3a7-4d9d-9423-a0e79536... security@wordfence.com

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 07:03 UTC · record ↗

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