CVE-2025-32697: wikimedia foundation mediawiki Improper Preservation of Permissions
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-32697 is a Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in wikimedia foundation mediawiki with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32.1% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1Timeline
- 10-04-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 10-04-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/editpage/IntroMessageBuilder.Php, includes/Permissions/PermissionManager.Php, includes/Permissions/RestrictionStore.Php. This issue affects MediaWiki: before 1.42.6, 1.43.1.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated0.0UnknownCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/RE:M/U:Green
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated0.0UnknownCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:M/U:Green
- NVDNIST0.0UnknownCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:M/U:Green
EPSS trend
Probability
0.39%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
32%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
+0.01 pp
From 0.39% on 20-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Debian1 product
- mediawikiAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 1:1.43.1+dfsg-1
Ubuntu1 product
- mediawikiAll versions (No fix recorded)
Wikimedia foundation1 product
- mediawiki< 1.42.6, 1.43.1
3 vendors · 3 products