SecuriTricks - CVE-2025-12004

Description

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Lockdown Extension allows Privilege Abuse. Fixed in Mediawiki Core Action APIThis issue affects Mediawiki - Lockdown Extension: from master before 1.42.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor	Product	Versions
Wikimedia	Mediawiki Mediawiki Lockdown Extension	- *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-732

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

The product specifies permissions for a security-critical resource in a way that allows that resource to be read or modified by unintended actors.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language	Software Edition	Target Software	Target Hardware	Other Information
a	wikimedia	mediawiki	-	<1.42	/	/	/	/	/	/
a	wikimedia	mediawiki_lockdown_extension	/	/	/	/	/	/	/

References

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Id275382743957004fa7fc56318fc104d8e2d267b

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397521

CVSS Score

10.0 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

Attack Vector: NETWORK
Attack Complexity: LOW
Attack Requirements: NONE
Privileges Required: NONE
User Interaction: NONE
Scope:
Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
Integrity Impact: HIGH
Availability Impact: HIGH
Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Timeline

Published: Oct. 21, 2025, 7:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Oct. 21, 2025, 7:31 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc

CVE-2025-12004