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Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-10-20 | Published 2025-10-21 | Updated 2025-10-21 | Assigner wikimedia-foundation




MEDIUM: 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L

Problem types

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Product status

Default status
unaffected

master (semver) before 1.39
affected

Credits

Dreamy_Jazz finder

abi_ remediation developer

References

phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627

gerrit.wikimedia.org/...64418362c65d0ad37055fe9e0ad134197da3

gerrit.wikimedia.org/...40c8ca5130b40463d687e2f0775951abbf22

cve.org (CVE-2025-62699)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-62699)

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