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.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/Idac164418362c65d0ad37055fe9e0ad134197da3
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/I65c740c8ca5130b40463d687e2f0775951abbf22
Published: 2025-10-21
Updated: 2025-10-21
Base Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Severity: Medium
Base Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Severity: High
Base Score: 6.9
Vector: 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
Severity: Medium
EPSS: 0.0004