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TI-2025-11011 Aliases CVE-2025-12010GHSA-g4qq-jh44-2cwj

Information disclosure in wpkube Authors List

Priority LOW 29CWE-200Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · None · None
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-200.

Summary

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

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0041 35th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
wpkubeAuthors Listup to 2.0.6.1—No fix listedCNA
  • Authors List Vendorwpkube Affected up to 2.0.6.1 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-12010
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-g4qq-jh44-2cwj

References

Other 4

  • TI-2024-11789 Simple Basic Contact Form < 20250114 - Admin+ Stored XSS CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.8
  • TI-2022-03869 Simple Basic Contact Form < 20221201 - Admin+ Stored XSS CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.8
  • TI-2021-03219 Missing authorization in wpkube Social Sharing Plugin – Kiwi CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2024-20625 WordPress Subscribe To Comments Reloaded plugin <= 220725 - Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2024-10151 Authors List <= 2.0.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via update_authors_list_ajax CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3
  • TI-2024-03857 Simple Basic Contact Form <= 20240502 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
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Sources

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