CVE-2025-62699 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-62699: Special:Translate tool does not use the correct IP and User-Agent in the CheckUser tool

Vendor The Wikimedia Foundation
Product Mediawiki - Translate Extension
Weakness CWE-200 · Info exposure
Published October 21, 2025
Last update October 21, 2025
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CVSS base score

6.9/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality —
Integrity —

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 21, 2025 CVE published
October 21, 2025 Record updated