The WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Open Redirect in all versions up to, and including, 7.0.02. This is due to the plugin not properly validating user input. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to redirect users to potentially malicious sites if they can successfully trick them into clicking on a specially crafted link. Exploitation requires tricking a logged-in user into clicking a crafted logout URL; the victim is fully logged out via wp_logout() before the malicious redirect is issued, making the logout irreversible as part of the attack chain.
CVE-2026-7527
MEDIUMPre-NVD 4.74.7—Trending — 4 sources updated this week
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence
Score 4.7 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-09-19. a secondary CVSS source baseline 4.7; sources differ by 0.0.
Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
4.7EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 4.7Exploit: None knownExposed: 0
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 4.7
- EG Score
- 4.7(high)
- EG Risk
- 21(Track)EG Risk 21/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity47% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 13%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 19, 2026
Last Modified
September 19, 2026
References (8)
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-my-wp/tags/5.5.02/models/Rewrite.php#L1679
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-my-wp/tags/5.5.02/models/Rewrite.php#L1684
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-my-wp/tags/7.0.01/models/Rewrite.php#L1679
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-my-wp/tags/7.0.01/models/Rewrite.php#L1684
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-my-wp/trunk/models/Rewrite.php#L1679
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-my-wp/trunk/models/Rewrite.php#L1684
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3556343
- security@wordfencehttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bd88ebd2-5584-4886-9c85-39a225cd00e9?source=cve
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-7527(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 10× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-20 12:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-20 12:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-19 14:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-19 14:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-19 14:10 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-19 14:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-19 08:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-19 07:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-19 07:50 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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Frequently asked(5)
What is CVE-2026-7527?
CVE-2026-7527 is a medium vulnerability published on September 19, 2026. The WP Ghost (Hide My WP Ghost) – Security & Firewall plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Open Redirect in all versions up to, and including, 7.0.02. This is due to the plugin not properly validating user input. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to redirect users to potentially…
When was CVE-2026-7527 disclosed?
CVE-2026-7527 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on September 19, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-7527 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-7527 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 86.7% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-7527?
CVE-2026-7527 has a CVSS v3 base score of 4.7 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-7527?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-7527, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.
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