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
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.
References
c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacchttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I65c740c8ca5130b40463d687e2f0775951abbf22
c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacchttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idac164418362c65d0ad37055fe9e0ad134197da3
c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacchttps://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627
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          "vendor": "The Wikimedia Foundation",
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      "value": "Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Translate Extension allows Footprinting.\nTranslate 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."
    },
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      "value": "Vulnerabilidad de Exposici\u00f3n de Informaci\u00f3n Sensible a un Actor No Autorizado en la Extensi\u00f3n Translate de Mediawiki de la Fundaci\u00f3n Wikimedia permite Footprinting. La extensi\u00f3n Translate parece usar trabajos para realizar ediciones en p\u00e1ginas de traducci\u00f3n. Esto provoca que la herramienta CheckUser registre la IP y el User-Agent incorrectos, haciendo que estas ediciones no sean auditables a trav\u00e9s de la herramienta CheckUser. Este problema afecta a la Extensi\u00f3n Translate de Mediawiki: desde master antes de 1.39."
    }
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  "id": "CVE-2025-62699",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-08T22:10:00.563",
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          "timestamp": "2025-10-21T13:49:49.130239Z",
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  "published": "2025-10-21T04:16:07.617",
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