6.9

CVE-2025-62699: the wikimedia foundation mediawiki - translate extension

CVSS: 6.9v4.0MediumDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-62699
Published 21-10-2025Last modified 21-10-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-62699 is a medium (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability in the wikimedia foundation mediawiki - translate extension. EPSS estimates a 0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
28/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.9/10
010
Medium · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.37%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 21-10-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 21-10-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.37%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

30%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.37% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.37%

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

The wikimedia foundation1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • mediawikiAll versions (No fix recorded)

2 vendors · 2 products

References

5 links