CVE-2025-62699 Special:Translate tool does not use the correct IP and User-Agent in the CheckUser tool
The Translate extension logs incorrect IP and User-Agent data, preventing proper audit trails and exposing sensitive information to unauthorized actors.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-62699?
CVE-2025-62699 is a medium-severity vulnerability in The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Translate Extension, published on 21 Oct 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-62699?
How do I fix CVE-2025-62699?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-62699 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-62699 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-62699 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fp49-m8xj-4hpr, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-62699.