SecuriTricks - CVE-2025-62699

Description

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Translate Extension allows Footprinting. Translate extension appears to use jobs to make edits to translation pages. This causes the CheckUser tool to log the wrong IP and User-Agent making these edits un-auditable via the CheckUser tool.This issue affects Mediawiki - Translate Extension: from master before 1.39.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor	Product	Versions
Mediawiki	Checkuser Extension	<1.39

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-200

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

*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	mediawiki	checkuser_extension	<1.39	/	/	/	/	/	/	/

References

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I65c740c8ca5130b40463d687e2f0775951abbf22

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idac164418362c65d0ad37055fe9e0ad134197da3

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627

CVSS Score

6.9 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

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

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/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, 4:16 a.m.
Last Modified: Oct. 21, 2025, 8:20 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-2025-62699