5.4

CVE-2025-61646: mediawiki Path Traversal

CVSS: 5.4v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-61646DEBIAN-CVE-2025-61646
Published 03-02-2026Last modified 03-03-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-61646 is a medium (CVSS 5.4) Path Traversal vulnerability in mediawiki. EPSS estimates a 0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 18.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.4/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.27%
0%100%
Low · +0.03 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3
DLA-4355-1DSA-6085-1MGASA-2025-0260

Timeline

  1. 03-02-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-03-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation MediaWiki. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/RecentChanges/EnhancedChangesList.Php. This issue affects MediaWiki: from * before 1.39.14, 1.43.4, 1.44.1.

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.27%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

18%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.03 pp

From 0.24% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.27%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • mediawiki< 1:1.39.17-1~deb12u1 | < 1:1.43.6+dfsg-1~deb13u1 | < 1:1.43.5+dfsg-1
Mediawiki1 product
  • mediawikiEOL< 1.39.14 | ≥ 1.43.0, < 1.43.4 | 1.44.0
Ubuntu1 product
  • mediawikiAll versions (No fix recorded)
Wikimedia foundation1 product

4 vendors · 4 products

References

5 links