# CVE-2025-53498: Lack of Audit Logging in AbuseFilter

> Attackers can exploit insufficient logging in the AbuseFilter extension to leak data, requiring administrators to upgrade the extension.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Jul 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8q9r-c4j3-x28f

## What is CVE-2025-53498?

CVE-2025-53498 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - AbuseFilter Extension, published on 7 Jul 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Insufficient Logging vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - AbuseFilter Extension allows Data Leakage Attacks.This issue affects Mediawiki - AbuseFilter Extension: from 1.43.X before 1.43.2.

Weakness: CWE-778 (Insufficient Logging)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-53498?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-53498?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-53498 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-53498 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-53498 exists.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-53498 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-53498 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - AbuseFilter Extension, published on 7 Jul 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-53498 exists.

Affected product: Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - AbuseFilter Extension. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-53498/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-53498/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53498
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53498
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-53498

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-53498/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.