Name: CVE-2025-12681: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2025-11-13T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2025-12681, CWE-200, CVSS 5.3, EPSS 0.00314

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.3
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Simple Comment Editing Plugin	—	Update simple-comment-editing plugin to version 3.2.0, or a newer patched version	Nov 13, 2025	Nov 12, 2025

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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