CVE-2025-12010 Information disclosure in Authors List
Authenticated contributors can extract sensitive user data like password hashes and emails via crafted shortcode attributes in the Authors List plugin.
- 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-2025-12010?
CVE-2025-12010 is a medium-severity vulnerability in wpkube Authors List, published on 11 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Authors List plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.6.1 via the via arbitrary method call from Authors_List_Shortcode class. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to call methods such as get_meta to extract sensitive user data including password hashes, email addresses, usernames, and activation keys via specially crafted shortcode attributes
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12010?
How do I fix CVE-2025-12010?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12010 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-12010 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12010 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-g4qq-jh44-2cwj.