Comment Edit Core – Simple Comment Editing <= 3.1.0 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2025-12681
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published November 12, 2025
Last Updated November 13, 2025
Researcher Powpy
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-comment-editing (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.1.0
Patched Version
  • 3.2.0
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