Jenkins Quality Gates Plugin 2.5 and earlier transmits configured credentials in plain text as part of its global Jenkins configuration form, potentially resulting in their exposure.

Affected: Maven: org.jenkins-ci.plugins:quality-gates

Quality Gates Plugin stores credentials in its global configuration file `quality.gates.jenkins.plugin.GlobalConfig.xml` on the Jenkins controller as part of its configuration. While the credentials are stored encrypted on disk, they are transmitted in plain text as part of the configuration form by Quality Gates Plugin 2.5 and earlier. This can result in exposure of the credential through browser extensions, cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, and similar situations.