CVE-2025-62699
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Publication date: 2025-10-21

Last updated on: 2025-10-21

Assigner: wikimedia-foundation

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.
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Published
2025-10-21
Last Modified
2025-10-21
Generated
2026-06-16
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2025-10-21
EPSS Evaluated
2026-06-15
NVD
CVE-2025-62699
EUVD
EUVD-2025-35133
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wikimedia mediawiki 1.39
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CWE ID Description
CWE-200 The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
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Executive Summary

This vulnerability is an Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in the Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - CheckUser Extension. It allows an attacker to perform Footprinting, which means gathering information about the system or users without authorization. The issue affects versions from master before 1.39 of the CheckUser Extension.

Impact Analysis

This vulnerability can lead to unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information, potentially allowing attackers to gather data about users or the system. This could compromise privacy and security by exposing information that should be protected.

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