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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

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

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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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

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 mitre root

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
The Wikimedia Foundation	Mediawiki - Translate Extension	Affected: master , < 1.39 (semver)

Credits

Dreamy_Jazz abi_

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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