Vulnerability · Published Oct 21, 2025 · Assigned by wikimedia-foundation
CVE-2025-62699Special:Translate tool does not use the correct IP and User-Agent in the CheckUser tool
Medium 6.9
In plain English
A medium-severity information exposure in Mediawiki - Translate Extension from The Wikimedia Foundation. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 31% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:25.10 | mediawiki | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-62699 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | mediawiki | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-62699 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | mediawiki | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-62699 |
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| The Wikimedia Foundation | Mediawiki - Translate Extension | master – before 1.39 |
Weakness: CWE-200 · 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