CVE-2025-12010

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

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-10-21 | Published 2025-11-11 | Updated 2025-11-12 | Assigner Wordfence

Problem types

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Product status

Timeline

Credits

kai finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-2d4c-47f5-b8d9-3192a670e586?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...ass-authors-list-shortcode.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...ass-authors-list-shortcode.php

cve.org (CVE-2025-12010)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-12010)

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