# CVE-2025-5760: Simple History \<= 5.8.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Sensitive Information Exposure via Detective Mode

- Severity: CVSS 4.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-06-06 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- eskapism Simple History – Track, Log, and Audit WordPress Changes: through 5.8.1

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on eskapism Simple History – Track, Log, and Audit WordPress Changes, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

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

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