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CVE-2025-11196: External Login <= 1.11.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Data Exposure via Test Connection

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-10-15 · updated 2026-10-08
• Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

• tbenyon External Login: through 1.11.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/external-login/trunk/login/db.php#L215
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/external-login/trunk/options/testing_ajax.php#L3
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/external-login/trunk/views/test_results.php#L21
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bdb40f51-dac2-40e7-beb1-154d982f7af3?source=cve

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