2.1

CVE-2025-6589: wikimedia foundation mediawiki Path Traversal

CVSS: 2.1v4.0LowDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-6589DEBIAN-CVE-2025-6589
Published 02-02-2026Last modified 03-03-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-6589 is a low (CVSS 2.1) Path Traversal vulnerability in wikimedia foundation mediawiki. EPSS estimates a 0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
8/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
2.1/10
010
Low · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.49%
0%100%
Low · +0.03 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 02-02-2026
    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/specials/pagers/BlockListPager.Php. This issue affects MediaWiki: >= 1.42.0.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.49%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

41%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.03 pp

From 0.46% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.49%

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< 1:1.43.3+dfsg-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • mediawikiAll versions (No fix recorded)
Wikimedia foundation1 product

3 vendors · 3 products

References

6 links