# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 11 Nov 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-g4qq-jh44-2cwj

## 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 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)

## 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.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-12010 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12010 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: wpkube Authors List. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12010/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12010/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12010
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12010
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-12010

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12010/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.