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CVE-2025-62699

Published: Oct 21, 2025

Modified: Oct 21, 2025

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
The Wikimedia Foundation	Mediawiki - Translate Extension	affected `master - < 1.39`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idac164418362c65d0ad37055fe9e0ad134197da3

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I65c740c8ca5130b40463d687e2f0775951abbf22

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