CVE-2025-53485 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

SetTranslationHandler.php does not validate that the user is an election admin, allowing any (even unauthenticated) user to change election-related translation text. While partially broken in newer MediaWiki versions, the check is still missing.

This issue affects Mediawiki - SecurePoll extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.13, from 1.42.X before 1.42.7, from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00042.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/149668
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392341

History

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		SetTranslationHandler.php does not validate that the user is an election admin, allowing any (even unauthenticated) user to change election-related translation text. While partially broken in newer MediaWiki versions, the check is still missing. This issue affects Mediawiki - SecurePoll extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.13, from 1.42.X before 1.42.7, from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.
Title		SecurePoll: Unauthorized access to SetTranslationHandler allows arbitrary text changes
Weaknesses		CWE-862
References		https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/149668 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392341

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: wikimedia-foundation

Published: 2025-07-04T17:39:36.272Z

Updated: 2025-07-08T17:38:04.023Z

Reserved: 2025-06-30T15:20:44.462Z

Link: CVE-2025-53485

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-07-07T19:44:57.703Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-07-04T18:15:23.497

Modified: 2025-07-08T18:15:41.277

Link: CVE-2025-53485

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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