What is CVE-2026-86796?

CVE-2026-86796 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hide My Wp Ghost, classified under Protection Mechanism Failure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-09-18.

How severe is CVE-2026-86796?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Hide My Wp Ghost

CVE-2026-86796

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.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Unknown Hide My Wp Ghost

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-693 — Protection Mechanism Failure

References

contact@wpscan.com (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-86796?: CVE-2026-86796 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hide My Wp Ghost, classified under Protection Mechanism Failure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-09-18.
How severe is CVE-2026-86796?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.