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WordPress Plugin: hide-my-wp: CVE-2023-34001: Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 22, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 5, 2026

Description

The Hide My WP Ghost plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CAPTCHA Bypass in versions up to, and including, 5.0.25. This is due a logic flaw within the brute_math_authenticate function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass CAPTCHA by omitting the `brute_ck` parameter from the authentication request.

Solution

hide-my-wp-plugin-cve-2023-34001
Title
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