CVE-2025-12681

The Comment Edit Core – Simple Comment Editing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.0 via the 'ajax_get_comment' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including user IDs, IP addresses, and email addresses.

CVSS 3.1

5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS

0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 24% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-200

Published

2025-11-13

Modified

2026-10-07

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-comment-editing/trunk/includes/Ajax.php#L230
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3392054/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4f954b02-b636-438b-a4b1-9b74df153c47?source=cve

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