# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.9 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 21 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fp49-m8xj-4hpr, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-62699

## 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 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)

## 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.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-62699 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-62699 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: The Wikimedia Foundation Mediawiki - Translate 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-2025-62699/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-62699/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62699
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62699
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-62699

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-62699/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.