Medium 6.9Published Oct 20, 2025

CVE-2025-62699Special:Translate tool does not use the correct IP and User-Agent in the CheckUser tool

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 7:30 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 6.9 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)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
Weakness (CWE): CWE-200
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: wikimedia-foundation
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Oct 21, 2025
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Translate Extension wikimedia_foundation:mediawiki_translate_extension (from the name)	from master before 1.39	CNA record

References

References

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idac164418362c65d0ad37055fe9e0ad134197da3
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I65c740c8ca5130b40463d687e2f0775951abbf22

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