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.

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Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:30:00 +0000

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Description 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. 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.
Title Special:Translate tool do not use the correct IP and User-Agent in the CheckUser tool Special:Translate tool does not use the correct IP and User-Agent in the CheckUser tool

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:15:00 +0000

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


Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Mediawiki
Mediawiki checkuser
Mediawiki mediawiki
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Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Special:Translate tool do not use the correct IP and User-Agent in the CheckUser tool
Weaknesses CWE-200
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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'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: wikimedia-foundation

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-21T19:22:21.373Z

Reserved: 2025-10-20T17:42:38.150Z

Link: CVE-2025-62699

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-10-21T13:49:55.460Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-10-21T04:16:07.617

Modified: 2025-10-21T20:20:56.093

Link: CVE-2025-62699

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-10-21T09:39:27Z

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