Medium severity · published Oct 21, 2025
CVE-2025-62699
Special:Translate tool does not use the correct IP and User-Agent in the CheckUser tool
6.9
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 31% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MT
Mediawiki - Translate Extension · The Wikimedia Foundation
master before 1.39 · source: vendor
Affected product
MT
Mediawiki - Translate Extension
The Wikimedia Foundation
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62699
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62699
gerrit.wikimedia.org
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I65c740c8ca5130b40463d687e2f0775951abbf22
gerrit.wikimedia.org
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idac164418362c65d0ad37055fe9e0ad134197da3
phabricator.wikimedia.org
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627