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CVE-2025-12681: Comment Edit Core – Simple Comment Editing <= 3.1.0 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-13 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

• ronalfy Comment Edit Core – Simple Comment Editing: through 3.1.0

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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