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CVE-2025-11983 Detail

Description

The WP Discourse plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.9. This is due to the plugin unconditionally sending Discourse API credentials (Api-Key and Api-Username headers) to any host specified in a post's discourse_permalink custom field during comment synchronization. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to exfiltrate sensitive Discourse API credentials to attacker-controlled servers, as well as query internal services and potentially perform further attacks.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-discourse/tags/2.5.9/lib/discourse-comment.php#L211 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-discourse/tags/2.5.9/lib/discourse-comment.php#L218 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-discourse/tags/2.5.9/lib/plugin-utilities.php#L486 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3384149%40wp-discourse&new=3384149%40wp-discourse&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= Wordfence
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6b1524f3-1c59-49a1-bbe3-94dcfd232b1d?source=cve Wordfence

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Wordfence  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-11983
NVD Published Date:
11/01/2025
NVD Last Modified:
11/04/2025
Source:
Wordfence