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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.9 Medium

CVE-2025-62699

Special:Translate tool does not use the correct IP and User-Agent in the CheckUser tool

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Translate Extension

Default version status: unaffected

  • master to < 1.39affected

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