CVE-2025-53485

SecurePoll: Unauthorized access to SetTranslationHandler allows arbitrary text changes

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Jul 4, 2025
Updated: Jul 8, 2025
Reserved: Jun 30, 2025

Description

SetTranslationHandler.php does not validate that the user is an election admin, allowing any (even unauthenticated) user to change election-related translation text. While partially broken in newer MediaWiki versions, the check is still missing.

This issue affects Mediawiki - SecurePoll extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.13, from 1.42.X before 1.42.7, from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Mediawiki - SecurePoll extensionWikimedia Foundation	1.39.x to before 1.39.13Affected 1.42.x to before 1.42.7Affected 1.43.x to before 1.43.2Affected

References

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