Why are passwords exportable as plain text in WordPress?

You cannot export passwords as plaintext in WordPress, because they are not stored in plaintext. What you see here is obviously the result of a very bad plugin.

Fields like Payment, Sex or Company are not even part of the regular WordPress tables.

For the future: Do not install plugins without prior tests and reviews in a safe environment. Use a local setup to find such security problems. Especially when you are dealing with other peoples data, this is a requirement.

What you should do now: Disable all plugins until this export is not possible anymore. The last disabled plugin was probably the problem. Find all the tables that it has created, delete those tables. Uninstall that plugin.

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