CVE-2025-62699 (GCVE-0-2025-62699)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-21 03:48 – Updated: 2025-10-21 19:22
VLAI
Title
Special:Translate tool does not use the correct IP and User-Agent in the CheckUser tool
Summary
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.
Severity
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-21 13:49 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Assigner
wikimedia-foundation CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 70/100 over 70 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Translate Extension Affected: master , < 1.39 (semver)
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Credits
Dreamy_Jazz abi_
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