CVE-2025-5760
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-256
Plaintext Storage of a Password
Publication date:
06/06/2025
Last modified:
15/04/2026
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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
4.90
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- 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