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CVE-2025-53485

Published: Jul 4, 2025

Modified: Jul 8, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

SetTranslationHandler.php does not validate that the user is an election admin, allowing any (even unauthenticated) user to change election-related translation text. While partially broken in newer MediaWiki versions, the check is still missing. This issue affects Mediawiki - SecurePoll extension: from 1.39.X before 1.39.13, from 1.42.X before 1.42.7, from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Wikimedia Foundation	Mediawiki - SecurePoll extension	affected `1.39.x - < 1.39.13` affected `1.42.x - < 1.42.7` affected `1.43.x - < 1.43.2`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392341

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/149668

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