CVE-2025-62699

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.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I65c740c8ca5130b40463d687e2f0775951abbf22
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idac164418362c65d0ad37055fe9e0ad134197da3
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627

Configurations

No configuration.

History

21 Oct 2025, 20:20

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Summary	(en) 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.	(en) 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.

21 Oct 2025, 04:16

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-10-21 04:16

Updated : 2025-10-21 20:20

NVD link : CVE-2025-62699

Mitre link : CVE-2025-62699

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-62699

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-200

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

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