---
id: CVE-2025-62699
title: >-
  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
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 ca…
severity: none
cwe:
  - CWE-200
published: '2025-10-21'
updated: '2026-10-08'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-08T22:10:00.563'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62699'
references:
  - url: 'https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I65c740c8ca5130b40463d687e2f0775951abbf22'
    label: c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc
  - url: 'https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idac164418362c65d0ad37055fe9e0ad134197da3'
    label: c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc
  - url: 'https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627'
    label: c4f26cc8-17ff-4c99-b5e2-38fc1793eacc
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00372
epssPercentile: 0.2899
ingestedAt: '2026-10-08T22:11:53.827Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.