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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-21 03:48 – Updated: 2025-10-21 19:22

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 69/100 over 81 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idac164418362c65…
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I65c740c8ca5130b…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
The Wikimedia Foundation	Mediawiki - Translate Extension	Affected: master , < 1.39 (semver)	guessed

Credits

Dreamy_Jazz abi_

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FKIE_CVE-2025-62699

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-21 04:16 - Updated: 2026-10-08 22:10

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

Summary

References

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	c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc	https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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    },
    {
      "source": "c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc",
      "url": "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idac164418362c65d0ad37055fe9e0ad134197da3"
    },
    {
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GHSA-FP49-M8XJ-4HPR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-10-21 06:31 – Updated: 2025-10-21 06:31

Details

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - CheckUser Extension allows Footprinting.This issue affects Mediawiki - CheckUser 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

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  "id": "GHSA-fp49-m8xj-4hpr",
  "modified": "2025-10-21T06:31:10Z",
  "published": "2025-10-21T06:31:10Z",
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    },
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      "url": "https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idac164418362c65d0ad37055fe9e0ad134197da3"
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}

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-62699 (CVE-2025-62699)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2025-10-21 04:16 – Updated: 2026-05-27 10:05 – Source website

Details

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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-62699	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62699	REPORT
	https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I65c740c8ca5130b…	REPORT
	https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idac164418362c65…	REPORT
	https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627	REPORT

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        "binaries": [
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            "binary_name": "mediawiki",
            "binary_version": "1:1.27.4-3"
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WID-SEC-W-2025-2341

Vulnerability from csaf_certbund - Published: 2025-10-20 22:00 - Updated: 2025-10-22 22:00

Summary

MediaWiki Extensions: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Codeausführung

Severity

Hoch

Scope

18 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2025-62699.

CVE-2025-62699

Known affected: 11 products

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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