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CVE-2025-11196:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The External Login plugin for WordPress contains a sensitive information exposure vulnerability (CVE-2025-11196) discovered in versions up to and including 1.11.2. The vulnerability was disclosed on October 15, 2025, and was identified by researcher Jonas Benjamin Friedli (NVD CVE, Wordfence Intel).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from the 'exlogtestconnection' AJAX action lacking proper security controls, specifically missing capability checks and nonce validation. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (MEDIUM) with a vector string of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor) (NVD CVE).
Impact
When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access or higher to query the configured external database. The attacker can retrieve sensitive information including truncated usernames, email addresses, and password hashes through the diagnostic test results view (NVD CVE).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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