Medium severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 21, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-62699

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 products

Wikimedia Foundation/Mediawiki Extensions Translateinferred
Range: <1.39

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I65c740c8ca5130b40463d687e2f0775951abbf22nvd
gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idac164418362c65d0ad37055fe9e0ad134197da3nvd
phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627nvd

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