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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-11-04 | Published 2025-11-13 | Updated 2025-11-14 | Assigner Wordfence




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

Problem types

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Product status

Default status
unaffected

* (semver)
affected

Timeline

2025-11-07:Vendor Notified
2025-11-12:Disclosed

Credits

Powpy finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-b636-438b-a4b1-9b74df153c47?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...diting/trunk/includes/Ajax.php

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

cve.org (CVE-2025-12681)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-12681)

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