2.7

CVE-2025-61653: wikimedia foundation textextracts Path Traversal

CVSS: 2.7v4.0LowDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-61653DEBIAN-CVE-2025-61653
Published 03-02-2026Last modified 03-03-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-61653 is a low (CVSS 2.7) Path Traversal vulnerability in wikimedia foundation textextracts. EPSS estimates a 0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
11/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
2.7/10
010
Low · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.39%
0%100%
Low · +0.04 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 TextExtracts. This vulnerability is associated with program files includes/ApiQueryExtracts.Php. This issue affects TextExtracts: from * before 1.39.14, 1.43.4, 1.44.1.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.39%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

31%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.04 pp

From 0.34% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.39%

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
Ubuntu1 product
  • mediawikiAll versions (No fix recorded)
Wikimedia foundation1 product

3 vendors · 3 products

References

5 links