Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Thanks Extension, Mediawiki - Growth Experiments Extension allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects Mediawiki - Thanks Extension, Mediawiki - Growth Experiments Extension: from 1.43 before 1.44.

Metrics

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact Low

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact Low

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact Low

Subsequent System Integrity Impact Low

Subsequent System Availability Impact Low

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0004.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

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Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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References
Link Providers
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Ia584966bb7d4d707eef50529293aa3d468470f18 cve-icon cve-icon
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idbc1b5a288ffaa7074eedcbac066358a8ec649dc cve-icon cve-icon
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397497 cve-icon cve-icon
History

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 21:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:45:00 +0000

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Description Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Thanks Extension, Mediawiki - Growth Experiments Extension allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects Mediawiki - Thanks Extension, Mediawiki - Growth Experiments Extension: from 1.43 before 1.44.
Title Do permission checking when getting counts of global and local edits, new articles and thanks
Weaknesses CWE-276
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.9, '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'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: wikimedia-foundation

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-21T19:51:42.777Z

Reserved: 2025-10-17T22:01:52.602Z

Link: CVE-2025-62661

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-10-21T19:51:38.571Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-10-21T20:20:55.857

Modified: 2025-10-22T21:12:48.953

Link: CVE-2025-62661

cve-icon Redhat

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