CVE-2025-11196 External Login <= 1.11.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Data Exposure via Test Connection
Authenticated subscribers can expose sensitive user data like email addresses and password hashes via an unsecured AJAX test connection action.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-11196?
CVE-2025-11196 is a medium-severity vulnerability in tbenyon External Login, published on 15 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The External Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to sensitive information exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.11.2 due to the 'exlog_test_connection' AJAX action lacking capability checks or nonce validation. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to query the configured external database and retrieve truncated usernames, email addresses, and password hashes via the diagnostic test results view.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11196?
How do I fix CVE-2025-11196?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11196 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-11196 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11196 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-529g-4fh9-mmmh.