CVE-2025-5760 Information

Description

The Simple History plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to sensitive data exposure via Detective Mode due to improper sanitization within the append_debug_info_to_context() function in versions prior to 5.8.1. When Detective Mode is enabled the plugin’s logger captures the entire contents of $_POST (and sometimes raw request bodies or $_GET) without redacting any password-related keys. As a result whenever a user submits a login form whether via native wp_login or a third-party login widget their actual password is written in clear text into the logs. An authenticated attacker or any user whose actions generate a login event will have their password recorded; an administrator (or anyone with database read access) can then read those logs and retrieve every captured password.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Reference

https://github.com/bonny/WordPress-Simple-History/commit/68eab0cab6882eafef4bfece884093eeda5ac018 https://github.com/bonny/WordPress-Simple-History/issues/546 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3267487/ https://simple-history.com/support/detective-mode/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-history/#developers https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-vulnerability-passwords-stored-as-plain-text-in-logs/ https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b6364415-da02-4236-b635-d8fbd27faa33?source=cve

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction Required

HIGH

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

4.9