CVE-2025-62699: The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Translate Extension

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 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.

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Published 2025-10-21. Last modified 2026-10-08.