CVE-2025-12681

Published: Nov 13, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

5.3

Vector

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

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 1.4

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

Description

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.

Related CWEs

CWE-200

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

References (3)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-comment-editing/trunk/includes/Ajax.php#L230

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3392054/

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4f954b02-b636-438b-a4b1-9b74df153c47?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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