Disclosure summary
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-reported weakness categories
CWE-200
Source-specific records & product guidance
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NIST National Vulnerability Database · NVD-CVE-2025-62699
Open original source · Updated Oct 08, 2026
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Original records & references
PUBLISHED 2025-10-21T00:16:07-04:00
MODIFIED 2026-10-08T18:10:00-04:00
INGESTED 2026-10-10T20:50:35-04:00