CVE-2025-62699
Special:Translate tool does not use the correct IP and User-Agent in the CheckUser tool
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.9 Medium
- Published
- Oct 21, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- Reserved
- Oct 20, 2025
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 6.9 Medium | 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 | wikimedia-foundation |
Weaknesses
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Mediawiki - Translate ExtensionThe Wikimedia Foundation |
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References
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