Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Nov 13, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-12681

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.

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Affected products

WordPress/Simple Comment Editinginferred2 versions
<=3.1.0+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <=3.1.0
- (no CPE)range: <=3.1.0
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-comment-editing

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-comment-editing/trunk/includes/Ajax.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3392054/nvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4f954b02-b636-438b-a4b1-9b74df153c47nvd

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