CVE-2025-12681 (GCVE-0-2025-12681)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-13 07:27
Modified
2025-11-13 07:27
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Summary
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
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ronalfy | Comment Edit Core – Simple Comment Editing |
Version: * ≤ 3.1.0 |
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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