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.

Metrics

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact Low

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact Low

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact Low

Subsequent System Integrity Impact Low

Subsequent System Availability Impact Low

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Mediawiki
  • Checkuser
  • Mediawiki

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References
Link Providers
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I65c740c8ca5130b40463d687e2f0775951abbf22 cve-icon cve-icon
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idac164418362c65d0ad37055fe9e0ad134197da3 cve-icon cve-icon
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627 cve-icon cve-icon
History

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:30:00 +0000

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Description Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - CheckUser Extension allows Footprinting.This issue affects Mediawiki - CheckUser Extension: from master before 1.39. 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.
Title Special:Translate tool do not use the correct IP and User-Agent in the CheckUser tool Special:Translate tool does not use the correct IP and User-Agent in the CheckUser tool

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Mediawiki
Mediawiki checkuser
Mediawiki mediawiki
Vendors & Products Mediawiki
Mediawiki checkuser
Mediawiki mediawiki

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - CheckUser Extension allows Footprinting.This issue affects Mediawiki - CheckUser Extension: from master before 1.39.
Title Special:Translate tool do not use the correct IP and User-Agent in the CheckUser tool
Weaknesses CWE-200
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.9, 'vector': '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'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: wikimedia-foundation

Published: 2025-10-21T03:48:50.423Z

Updated: 2025-10-21T19:22:21.373Z

Reserved: 2025-10-20T17:42:38.150Z

Link: CVE-2025-62699

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-10-21T13:49:55.460Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-10-21T04:16:07.617

Modified: 2025-10-21T20:20:56.093

Link: CVE-2025-62699

cve-icon Redhat

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