CVE-2025-62699 — Special:Translate tool does not use the correct IP and User-Agent in the CheckUser tool
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Translate Extension allows Footprinting. Translate extension app…
Published: 2025-10-21 · CVSS: 6.9 · CVSS 4.0
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7