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.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-10-21T03:48:50.423Z

Last Modified :

2025-10-21T19:22:21.373Z

Source :

wikimedia-foundation
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-62699 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Mediawiki
  • Checkuser
  • Mediawiki
REFERENCES

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URL Resource
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I65c740c8ca5130b40463d687e2f0775951abbf22 cve-icon cve-icon
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idac164418362c65d0ad37055fe9e0ad134197da3 cve-icon cve-icon
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627 cve-icon cve-icon
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